Happy Birthday LINUX!
Today, August 25th, is LINUX's 20th birthday.
CNN published an article about this today which, while entertaining and informative, seemed to ignore the most important thing about LINUX.
At 20, Linux is invisible, ubiquitous - CNN.com
What the article failed to mention is that LINUX is the most common operating system in use today for web servers. In fact virtually all of you who are using shared hosting are using the common LAMP platform - LINUX, Apache, MySQL & PHP.
Without LINUX it is entirely possible that a lot of our industry would not even exist, or if it did it would be a lot smaller. How many of you have shared hosting plans that allow you to run multiple domains for 10 bucks a month (or even less)? Do you realize that the only reason this is possible is due to the use of Open Source products like LINUX? If hosting companies instead had to provide platforms using Microsoft products do you have any idea how expensive that would be for them? How many of you would still be into Internet Marketing if your server costs were a few hundred dollars a month?
So while you may not be using LINUX on your desktop yet (although I have to confess that I am) you still have reason to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this amazing operating system. And if you've ever made even a dollar from one of your websites you have a fellow named Linus Torvalds to thank.
Happy Birthday LINUX!
Bill
CNN published an article about this today which, while entertaining and informative, seemed to ignore the most important thing about LINUX.
At 20, Linux is invisible, ubiquitous - CNN.com
What the article failed to mention is that LINUX is the most common operating system in use today for web servers. In fact virtually all of you who are using shared hosting are using the common LAMP platform - LINUX, Apache, MySQL & PHP.
Without LINUX it is entirely possible that a lot of our industry would not even exist, or if it did it would be a lot smaller. How many of you have shared hosting plans that allow you to run multiple domains for 10 bucks a month (or even less)? Do you realize that the only reason this is possible is due to the use of Open Source products like LINUX? If hosting companies instead had to provide platforms using Microsoft products do you have any idea how expensive that would be for them? How many of you would still be into Internet Marketing if your server costs were a few hundred dollars a month?
So while you may not be using LINUX on your desktop yet (although I have to confess that I am) you still have reason to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this amazing operating system. And if you've ever made even a dollar from one of your websites you have a fellow named Linus Torvalds to thank.
Happy Birthday LINUX!
Bill
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