Why Linux Hosting Is So Popular Online

Linux hosting has become increasingly popular in recent years. Worldwide, well over 60% of web servers now run the Linux operating system and, from its humble beginnings in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “mass collaboration and free software” project of the mid 1980s, Linux has grown to become the world’s dominant hosting solution.

The Linux operating system is an open source software collaboration project. Under the terms and conditions of the Linux GNU General Public License, all of the source code that makes this operating system function can be freely modified by absolutely anyone.

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Is Linux a Real Time Operating System

Most of the telecommunication and data-communication products use Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS). Application of a RTOS is called embedded software. Let’s discuss some basic definitions and classification of RTOS and how Linux does it.

Since Linux is an open-source operating system with strong ability to support multiple processors, including MIPS, x86, PowerPC, its becoming more popular with the embedded software developers as RTOS. Because of Linux open-source nature, its constantly evolving. In this article, the standard Linux is analyzed.

What’s an RTOS

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