Linux is a child of love, OS x and Windows systems are always there, but open source Linux is silently supporting something unusual in the corner. The executive director of the Linux Foundation told us, "You use Linux every day, but you don't know it's always in your life." "Mobile phones, securities institutions, high-speed rail, traffic control, banks, nuclear submarines, automobiles ..." This almost forgotten system is far more important than what you see.
1. Android phones and tablet systems based on Linux
Many people know that Android is a Linux based operating system that is now activated daily with thousands of devices.
2. The TiVo runs a Linux system
TiVo has its own Linux operating system, providing real-time video, scheduled video and other functions. And won the American interactive Television design Outstanding Achievement Emmy Award.
3. Many of the world's supercomputers are running Linux
4. Japan's high-speed railways run by Linux, control the departure and arrival of each train
5. Support for high-tech traffic control: San Francisco recently started a Linux-controlled traffic control system
6. Toyota car through Linux to make its car more intelligent, currently mainly used in entertainment information and communication functions
7. Milk Milking
Delaval, the 122-Year-old dairy company, is using Linux in a robotic system to cope with milking cows.
8. The New York Stock Exchange runs Linux systems
Financial giants generally need a reliable software, and the New York Stock Exchange switched to Linux in 2007 because it helps reduce costs and increase flexibility.
9. To assist the Institute of Particle Physics
10. Air traffic System: help you safely from a to B
Linux running nuclear submarine 2004 Lockheed Martin (US Aerospace) delivered a nuclear submarine running Red Hat Linux to the U.S. government
Google, Amazon, and Facebook use Linux systems in multiple networks and cloud services
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