1. Or ... lets look at its popularity Andrew Smith … Open University
Linux a potted history
Or ... lets look at its popularity
Andrew Smith … Open University

2. Jargon ….
Apologies … I will try and use plain English

3. August/September 1991 So what! Who is Linus Torvalds?
Coming up to 23rd Birthday

4. The *nix family
Shiny Macs are related
iPhone
iPad
Linux Timeline

5. Debian/Ubuntu A very popular branch Started in South Africa
Pervasive in developing economies
Start up Ubuntu

6. (An)Droid Linux in your pocket Kindle Fire is related
80% of market place
tablets/phones
malware issues … why?
Kindle Fire is related

7. Webservers Apache2 - sits on Linux around 66-70%
There is a Windows Version
around 66-70%

8. Raspberry Pi Since Feb 2012 Teaching our children to program
Many other projects
Has a popular version of Debian Squeeze

9. Open Source Free Software!!! Copyleft / Creative Commons
GNU - does predate but links strongly into the Linux community
Open Source Initiative

10. Google? One mega cluster
Beowulf …. making a supercomputer out of old PC’s
“Google Web Server (GWS) – custom Linux-based Web server that Google uses for its online services.”

11. Top 500? Top 500 SuperComputers, Linux is on 485 Why?
Cost/Flexible/Number of Processors

12. And Finally Most sky boxes are Linux Many control systems use Linux
Chances are that most systems you connect to on the net are Linux based
Free and ‘easy’ to manipulate