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You might be angry with Apple because they removed headphone jack from iPhone 7. Yes, they did. But there are a lot more features that you may wonder. You may be not in the mode of reading. But at least you should bookmark this post. Because this article about the features of new iPhone is going to help you a lot.

So, you came till here. We are going to represent the features that showed up at the last Apple event. Most of us already know that the last Apple event was dedicated to upgraded versions of the iPhone and the Apple Watch team. They made both of the products more beautiful and safer around water. And for the Pokemon Go lovers, the great news is, they will be able to play the game in Apple watch. The iPhone 7 has lost the headphone jacks but got AirBuds with a second camera. And the Apple watch you used till now has got more useful and speedy.

The iPhone 7

Apple tried to make the design as clean and beautiful as possible. Also on some occasions, the iPhone 7 was called as the best iPhone ever made! Yes, it's usual. In most of the cases, the latest versions become the greatest.

The both 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhone 7 comes with the usual array of colors. But the newly added colors are the super glossy Jet Black and ordinary Black. The new phone has 25% of brighter display than others with better color management and reproduction. The phone antennas were moved into the chassis of the phone. The phone has also got stereo speakers and with brand new A10 Fusion chip. The phone has also become water and dust resistance.

Did you say Goodbye to the Headset Jack?

This is a part of a test by the Apple. They announced that they will be removing the 3.5mm jack. And headphones will be working on Apple’s Lightning standard. But you can still connect your headphones with the phone using an adapter. And of course, the adapter will be given with the box.

The AirPods

To make the audio transfer smoother through the air, Apple designed it's own headphone to connect with the iPhone more directly. Both of the devices uses a W1 chip and they can directly connect with each other. They named the headphone device AirPods. Because it works in Air. Or you can call it EarPods without wires. The AirPods costs $159. But you have to wait till the late October to buy them.

Non-Real Home Button

Home Button, iPhone's one of the most iconic features. It was a clicky physical button till the 6 plus. But in the latest version of iPhone, that physical button is no more. Instead of that physical clicky button, there are Apple’s new MacBook trackpads. Apple thinks, this button will satisfy its users.

New Mario for iOS 10

Super Mario Run, Nintendo's another game of this year. You can play the game in one hand. There’s also a multiplayer mode. Players have to collect coins from the map. The game is releasing on holidays. And the best thing is only iOS users will be able to enjoy it for now.

Dual camera with some tricks

The iPhone 7 Plus comes with two rear-facing cameras. This camera will not only help you to capture your moments in 3D. Each of the cameras has a different focal length. With both of the cameras, you will be able to zoom from the camera app between the two different focal lengths. These cameras are also used to do great focus and de-focus. Apple also claims about the new cameras on the iPhone 7 devices.

The Apple Watch 2

Apple is back with it's Apple Watch 2. This watch has some great updates to its latest version. This watch is brighter than ever it was. It has a new dual-core processor which is 50% faster than the previous one. They added the white ceramic version along with aluminum and stainless steel. But they stopped to make the gold versions.

The Series 2 Apple watches will cost you $369. You can give preorder if you want. It starts from September 9th. And watchOS 3 will be coming on September 13th to its users.

Waterproofing and GPS

Series 2 Watch is completely water resistant of up to 50m. Apple spent some time to encourage the public to wear Apple watches. Even when they will be swimming. This watch is a great waterproofer. Even the watch has a swim mode. If you are thinking about watch speakers, then you will be happy to know that, the speakers will push out water.

Apple also put a built-in GPS in the Series 2. It is more runner- and hiker-friendly. The watch can still find your location if you are in a cellular dead zone or you don't have a standalone data connection. So you will not have the chance of losing anywhere.

Pokémon Go for Apple Watch

Nintendo also announced that Pokémon Go will become available for Apple Watch users. They will be able to play the game directly from the watch. It's a great feature for the game lovers.

iOS 10 is releasing next week

iOS 10 has announced to officially come out on September 13th. This is one of the greatest iOS ever made. In iOS 10, users will get an assistant like smarter Siri. She is now very smart to handle image searches and transcribing voicemails.

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Most of us think that Google can only track us if we sign in for any Google products. Gmail and Google Plus can be a big example for that. But it is not true. Google can track 90 percent of Internet users worldwide and they do. And Google doesn't care that if the people is not a Google product user but still, he will be tracked. So you can say all of us is being monitored. You are too!

You might be confused that, if you don't use Google products, then how they track you? Let's make a point, someone sent you an email. That means email communication. After clicking on the send button, the message goes through several email servers until it reaches to the email server near to you. When you open an email, you always see just four fields in its header. And those fields are From, To, Date, and Subject. But there is some email system that allows its user to see much more information. If you expand a header, you will be able to see many lines that contain technical information. Those technical information's also includes the name of computer servers that your message passed on.

I am sure enough that one of those email servers was a Google server. Because some specific servers are used to pass every email. And when Google server passes your email, they also scan it. Did you ever saw ads of product that you were just talking about on an email with your friend? If you ever, then it is because you were scanned. Google Buzz (failed social network by Google) was built entirely using information in Gmail messages. And it revealed who was friends with whom.

Here we have included a partial list of tracking methods that Google always use.

The Search Engine

Most of the people search on Google whenever they have any issues. They use it - for health information, any news update, to find any events nearby, to handle kids, and many others. Every search allows the search engine to track users interests, character, religious beliefs, medical problems, personal problem, parenting challenges, political view and so on. If we say it in one line, it would be - A single search in Google, gives them a lot of information about us.

You may ask what happens if they get information about my interests? They don't even know my name or identity. OK. It's completely ok to ask such type of question. But the problem is they don't need to know your name, they already have your IP address. And each computer or smartphone has a unique IP address. But if needed the company can eventually find your name, address, and telephone number, too. When the user uses any Google product, Google installs an identifier cookie on the users' device. So it becomes easier to track and get information about the user in future. Another thing is Google always reads and stores every alphabet that user types in the search bar. Even if he don't hit the enter button too.

Google has a service named Adsense. Adsense is used for advertising. Google store your search history and use it to show you personalized ads. About 97 percent of the revenues of Google are from advertising.

Email Service

Gmail, the email system by Google. Gmail scans each incoming and outgoing messages. They don't care about whether the email is going or coming from. They always scan. If you delete your email history from your inbox or trash, you are still not safe. Because you are deleting, not they are. You will wonder to know that Google also saves copies of your drafted emails that were not decided to send. And there are many Google servers, which route the emails of thousands of companies that don't care about this risk. So whether you use Gmail, write to anyone who is a user of Gmail, or in some cases simply email, Google is receiving your info.

Google+

If you are a regular or irregular user of Google+, then you are a good volunteer. Because you are performing a great deal through telling Google about your everything. You can say you are doing the same with Facebook. But Facebook is a toddler in front of Google. So as an elder, Google knows how to use your information in their business.

Chrome - The Fastest Web Browser

Chrome is a web browser owned by Google. It was released on 2008 to compete with Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and other popular browsers of that time. Now it is said to be the fastest and most used browser ever. Did you ever think the reason of introducing the full free web browser to the world? This might be the reason - using Chrome, Google will be able to directly track which website you are visiting. And they are able to do this without getting the help of search engine. The search engine could not provide all information about you. It only tells the company about your interests and where you need more information in. So Chrome is here to help them. Chrome track your daily website visiting activities, those activities which you don't need to research for. As an example, you are chatting with your bank or employer - and spying here wasn't so easy for Google without Chrome. Google incognito mode is not secure so. They always keep tracking you.

Firefox

You can directly say - What??? Are you mad?? But we can surely say, we are not. Then you may have on your mind that how Google can track when the user is using a competing browser maintained by a non-profit organization. Google can do it. Whenever you put any link or search item on Firefox search bar, takes you to your destination. But before going there, it checks to see whether that website is on Google's blacklist or not. Google maintains a list of dangerous websites. Nobody ever gave Google the permission to maintain such a list, but the list exists. And browsers like Firefox uses the list. So Google gets alerted when you any visit websites using Firefox. You will get confused to know the fact that Mozilla Corporation receives 85 percent of its annual income from Google. And for that reason, Google search engine always becomes the default search engine for Firefox users.

Safari - The Browser owned by Apple

It's good for you to know that Google was fined $22.5 million by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) for illegally tracking users of Apple products. Google essentially hacked Apple's Safari browser and as the result, they were fined. But do the only fine solves all the problems? Safari also uses Google's blacklist to check the safety of websites other browsers.

Android

Android is one of the most used mobile operating systems. But what could be the hidden reason behind this? Why do they want to compete with operating systems developed by Research in Motion and Apple? Ohh, maybe because operating systems are more helpful than browsers. Everything you do in your phone run through the operating system. Android gives Google full access to your activities. Google can ask Android for any type of information they need about the user. Now Google is planning to create an operating system for computer users too.

YouTube

YouTube was founded in 2006. Youtube gives Google access to another set of insights into consumer preferences. When any user spends hours on YouTube from watching this video or that video, Google smoothly gets information of what the user enjoys much.

Google Analytics

Almost 75% of popular websites use Google Analytics to get statistics about who is visiting their website. Visitors don't have any idea on which website is using Analytics. But it is present and watching them just like the best spy. Google is tracking every information about the user. And through analytics, they are doing it with an authorization of the website owner. The user has no way to go.

Google AdSense

Google gets its 97% revenue from Google Adsense. Adsense is being used in millions of web pages, and it shows some small ads provided by Google on the website. The ads are personalized and based on your search or activities. We told you about this process before. So you are reading the contents of a website after some time you may also click on the ads. Okay, I know what you may think right now. you may think that Google will start receiving your info when you click on the ads. But the actual thing is Google starts to capture your information from the moment you load a page containing an ad. So when you click on the ad, it just gives Google some more detailed info.

Google AdWords

If Adsense ads fail to provide as the information they wanted, they made another way for them named Google AdWords. AdWords allows website owners to embed Google ads into words of the contents. When the user loads a page with AdWords enabled, Google has got another chance to find you.

That's all we have got till now.

Is all this tracking legal?

Yes, It is. You made it legal for them. They include that they may take your information for better user experience in their terms of conditions. And we hit agree without reading it. In other words – you gave permission to track you. So Google is not doing anything without our permission. Read terms of conditions before you hit agree. That will help you to stay safe. Whatever Google does, we cannot stay without them.

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Nikola Tesla is one of the most talented scientists who helped this globe to come in this position. He was a genius and my favorite. If you don't know about him properly or want to read a complete biography of him, you can simply go to this link. The link is of Tesla Society. So it's completely safe for you to go. And come back here after reading the biography to know some odd and amazing facts about the great scientist.

We are not insulting him. But in comparison to other scientists of that time, Tesla was also noted for his personal habits, rituals, and beliefs. Some of his behaviors was also an example of his talent and dedication to his duty. He made some great sacrifices in his exceptional life.

So let's continue with knowing about the most interesting and unknown things that happened in Tesla's life. Whatever happens, he was the man who sacrificed all his life for us and used his intelligence completely. The journey of knowing all the interesting facts about Tesla starts from here:

He was the son of light

The great scientist Nikola Tesla on midnight between July 9 and July 10 of 1856. He arrived at this world during a lightning storm. As this family described to everyone, the midwife who helped his mother to give birth wrung her hands and said this type lighting is a bad omen. And she also declared that the child will be a child of darkness. But his mother replied to her negatively and said that he will be a son of light.

Being a mystic

There was a sorrowful event on Tesla's life. He witnessed the death of his older brother Dane in his childhood. The mystery was, after his brother's death, he began to see visions of the air around him. And visions were something like tounges of flames. After some years, he learned to control the visions. But he claimed in later life that he can mystically communicate with pigeons of New York city.

Someone with great sense of humor

Most of the peoples think that Tesla was a strict man who was used to always think about his work or inventions. But it's not true. Seifer said that Tesla had an extraordinary sense of humor. As an example, you can check the below text. Tesla wrote this to one of his close friends, after dining with Mr. Rudyard Kipling.

April 1, 1901
My dear Mrs. Johnson,

What is the matter with inkspiller Kipling? He actually dared to invite me to dine in an obscure hotel where I would be sure to get hair and cockroaches in the soup.

Yours truly,

N. Tesla

Classified inventions by Tesla

Tesla died in 1943. His used stuff's were taken by the Office of Alien Property. As his memory, most of the things were given to his family and some were taken by Tesla Museum. Some of his documents are still classified by the U.S. Government.

Tesla vs. Edison

There are many meme's or pictures on the internet which indicate that Tesla and Edison were enemies. But W. Bernard Carlson says that the relationship between them is being misrepresented. In early days of Tesla's career, Tesla used to work for Edison. But they were the opponent of each other in “Current Wars”. Just like Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs.

Environment Lover Tesla!

As Jane Alcorn said, Tesla was too worried about the resources of this planet. Because people consuming it too fast. He wanted to make all the available resources renewable. And that's why he studied on the ways of gathering the natural energy from the soil and air. He also created artificial lightning in his lab to detect differences in electrical potential on Earth and on high objects.

Idea for smartphone technology

Tesla had a brilliant mind, but he was not good at turning his ideas to practice. Carlson said in his book that Tesla was the first person to think about information revolution. He had the idea to communicate instantly.

Tesla was a humanist!

This inventor was a great humanist. As Alcorn said, “he did what he did for the sake of the betterment of mankind and wanted to give people an opportunity to have a better quality of life. Thus, he never seemed to care about monetary gain and never had enough money for his research.”

Tesla had many wealthy friends, but he was not like them. He was known as a pool player who liked to hustle for tiny amounts of money.

He scared Mark Twain

Tesla had an earthquake machine in his Manhattan laboratory. That daring machine shook his building and nearly brought down the neighborhood when he was experimenting.

But that machine was not an actual earthquake machine. As Carlson said, it was a high-frequency oscillator. Twain was known for always having many problems. Tesla knew Twain through their gentlemen’s club. One day, Tesla invited him in his lab. He instructed Twain to stand on the platform and Tesla flipped on the oscillator. After almost 90 seconds, Twain jumped off from the platform and ran for the facilities.

Tesla and his friends

Most of the people don't know that Tesla was a close friend of conservationist John Muir. Marc J. Seifer said that Muir (one of the founders of the Sierra Club) loved the Tesla’s hydroelectric power system. Because it was a clean energy system. It was used to run on waterfalls. His some more friends were financiers Henry Clay Frick and Thomas Fortune Ryan.

Insomnia and obsessive-compulsive behaviors

Tesla claimed that he slept only 2 hours each night. But he occasionally took an afternoon nap. This great scientist always hated jewelry and objects that are round. He also could not bear to touch his hair. Also, he was obsessed with the number 3. He had a habit of polishing each point of the dining room before dining. And it is said that he used precisely 18 napkins for that.

Tesla hated pearls

Tesla hated pearls so much that he could not stand the sight of pearls. Even he refused to speak to women who wears them. He had a secretary who wore pearl jewelry a day, he sent her home for the whole day. Everyone was unable to explain the reason for such an aversion. In order to be successful, the person needed to look successful. So he wore white gloves to dinner every night.

Photographic memory with fear of germs

Tesla was known to memorize books and images in his mind and use the visions for inventions. As people thinks, he also had a powerful imagination power and the ability to visualize in 3D. He used this power to control the vivid nightmares. This power made him more mystical and eccentric character in popular culture.

Electricity sucking tower

Tesla built an 185-foot tall tower on Long Island, NY. His plan was to suck electricity out of the air and send it through the earth. But it didn't work. In 1917, the tower was torn down. The government blamed that the Germans were supposedly using it as a spy tower.

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Most of us have already got addictions on Google. Whatever happens, we do a simple Google search. Even if the matter is marriage, most of the people will search why to marry. That means Google has become a part of our life.

Whenever we open our browser, we search on Google for at least a single time.
Have you ever thought that what could happen if Google shuts down only for 30 minutes or fewer? What will be the affects for that in our real life? You will be reading about it. However, you should know that Google's server went down for only 2-3 minutes in August 2013. And only for those 2-3 minutes, the whole internet's traffic was decreased by 40%. People faced this same incident also in 2009.

So let's start to think about the absence of Google.

No one will believe it

At first, when the user will see the notification that Google is not working, he will not believe it and keep reloading the page until he understands that it's not a bug. Some of the peoples will also start to check their internet connection or start calling their internet service provider. And someone will start to check if his hardware has gone mad. What would you do if you suddenly see that Google is not working? Will you believe it so easily?

After realizing the actual matter

After spending a couple of minutes, people will be able to understand that Google has got down. But some of them will still be in confusions. They will keep their self-busy in reloading the homepage of Google. This is because people have the tendency of missing things when that is unavailable. And when they will completely realize that Google is not live anymore, they may do the following things -

People will start to take a screen shot of the error page. Just like this one.

All Facebook newsfeeds will get covered with the screen shots and people will talk to each other about the problem. All other matter will go down but this news will keep increasing its popularity.

Some serious and busy peoples will want to start finding a new and similar to Google search engine. But how they will find? Because some of them even don't know that there are more search engines waiting for them. Just think of yourself. How many search engines name do you know?

Traffic will knock on the doors of Bing and Yahoo. Not to use them continuously. But to know about the reason of the absence of Google. So the "What happened to Google" keyword will get the most of the traffic. It can be so much traffic that Bing and Yahoo servers can get down also.

There is a search engine called DuckDuckGo. It never tracks it's users location. So similar search engines like this one will start to advertise about themselves. Some of the users will say that "Google did a great job through shutting down. At least they will stop to track peoples."

Many of internet applications which use services from Google, those will stop to work. As Google will stop working, Gmail also. And only for the shutdown case of Gmail, the whole international trade, and commerce sector will be collapsed. Yes, It's true.

Google will make a big loss for those 30 minutes. Not only Google. Businesses which use Google products will also face to this.

Travellers or adventurers may lose in an unknown place or any deep forest. They may try to use Apple map. But in most of the cases, they will lose again through using that. Most of us already know the reason of losing him again.

Youtube loves will sit idle. Competitors of Google will start to singing. Because at least they are getting traffics for once :p. Peoples will start to make trolls. Just like this one.

The whole world will be crying for Google except China. Do you know why? Because Google is banned in China and they have Baidu.

After those horrible thirty minutes

After solving all complications, Google will get back in. And after getting back, they will go on a press briefing about what the problem was. Tech lovers from all over the world will try to find various reasons behind this. They will start commenting about it without knowing the proper matter. Some hackers may announce that they hacked Google. And they will gain some popularity. Some more things will happen. Just like -

Bloggers like me will post some mega tune on how important Google is for us.

Media's will start creating reports on how the world was crying for Google.

People will start to find alternatives to Google.

Technology blogs like Mashable, TechCrunch will post articles on “Google went down for 30 minutes. You won’t believe what happened next.” or “10 things to do when Google goes down the next time”.

It was some type of humour. But this may happen in future. So everyone should find alternatives to Google. If you enjoyed the post, don't forget to share this with your friends. Let them enjoy this article. And also don't forget to let us know your thoughts.

Linux is going to turn 25 years old on August 25. It is the day when Linus Torvalds sent out his fateful message asking for help with a new operating system. Let's see what his message was “I’m doing an operating system for 386 AT clones. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat,”. He wrote all of these in the comp.os.minix message board. Rest of the messages had become history.

After sitting in front of the latest version of Ubuntu, Fedora or SUSE and enjoying the glorious animated desktops, ease-of-use the GUI grants, do we ever wondered how our favorite operating system came to your computer?

Do you want to know about the amount of time and effort that took to make this OS better and better? If you do, then we will help you with this post.

So if you want to read about the history of the wonderful OS and its journey, you have to take some time to read the complete post. You may have curiosity on when was it born? How did it evolve? and more. We will help you to fulfill your thirst about all these. Let's start the time machine now.

Getting back to 1991

The humble beginnings…

At the very first, there was something called Unix. And Unix was created by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, in 1969. It was paused till the time of the eighties. But after that, some more projects began and they were based on the Unix.

Some of those projects were Richard Stallman's GNU Project, the Berkley Software Distribution (BSD), the book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Professor Andrew S Tanenbaum, and MINIX (Mini-Unix).

In 1991, a young Finnish student called Linus Torvalds wished that he want to make a storm in the world. And he decided to use the knowledge what he learnt from landmark systems.

There are many people who helped Linux to get developed. One of them is Linus. He transferred data to his hard drive instead of his modem and wiped out the MINIX partitions he had created. He was frustrated because of the limits of OS. So he wanted to create one for his own.

But people says the real story behind creating Linux is, he created a free terminal emulator basing on MINIX, but it was based on Unix and become the workings for an operating system kernel. And on 25 August 1991, Linus sent his famous message to MINIX Newsgroup.

With that, FTP servers of the world started to talk about the versions of Linux (It was originally named Freax). And it helped to increase contributor numbers.

It's time to finish 1991. We cannot stay here. Let's move to another year.

The time of 1992 to 1994

How the desktop founders grew up!

Nothing much happened between 1992 and 1994. But in these times, some more founders of the modern Linux desktop appeared. Slackware, Red Hat, and Debian, with Linux kernel growing to become 0.95.

Slackware had the first systems to adopt the Linux kernel in that time. And Slackware started life as SLS. If you define SLS, it will come to Softlanding Linux System. And it was founded by Peter MacDonald in 1992.

But this version of Linux still had some frustrations because of its buggy interface. So someone named Ian Murdock was the fourth to release another version of Linux which was called The Debian Linux Release. And Debian Linux came from his girl friend's name.

And One that appeared in 1994, is S.U.S.E Linux.

After that, another version saw the light of the sun on 3 November 1994. And it was called Red Hat Commercial Linux. The great creator of it was Marc Ewing. The name of this version came from the coloured hat he wore whilst at University. Yes, It seems some funny.

On 14 March 1994, something wonderful happened. Linux 1.0.0 was launched with 176,250 lines of code for the first time. Many years are left yet. So let's move.

More four years - 1995 to 1999

Beginning of Gnome and KDE

In these years, you will be able to see some of the greatest Linux distributions and incidents. It starts from the 'big three', with some very notable off-shoots of the Linux family, and the penguin attack of 1996.

Jurix Linux is another version of Linus, and it was pretty interesting for a few things. It was the first version to include a scriptable installer. It also allowed an admin install. And admin install was used to copy the installation process with similar machines. It was also one of the first Linux systems to use EXT2.

The Red Hat-based branch of Linux OSs was a fertile bunch. Because during that time, some more versions were released named as Caldera, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Yellow Dog, and Red Flag. All of these began life from the evolving with Linux kernel. And from 1995 to 1999, in versions 1.2.0 to 2.2.

Version 2.0 was launched in 1996. And there were 41 releases in the series. We saw something like 41 releases in the series. Version 2.0 had some features like SMP support and better memory management. It could run on more types of processor.

Let's talk about the matter of penguin. It was a holiday and Linus visited a zoo in Australia. But in there, he was bitten by a ferocious penguin. And then he got infected with penguinitis. It forced him to stay awake at night and thinking about penguins. He became very fond of them. It's hard to believe. But we are not talking this from our own. Linus told all these.

Whatever, the main thing is Linus loved penguins. As his comment, Penguins are goofy and funny.

Debian-based systems began to grow. They started to be more user-friendly. Those were also desktop-orientated. So often popular magazines of that time printed about Debian-based distros in their front page.

The most noticeable subject in these five years was the birth of KDE and Gnome. KDE means Kool Desktop Environment. And it was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich. He was a student of the University of Tübingen.

In 1998, KDE version 1.0 released and it was open to the world. The first distro to use KDE was Mandrake. And in 2000, version 2.0 was out and featured a greatly improved system. It leads them to more popularity. Version 2.0 was with Konqueror, KOffice, and KIO networking.

Some new members named Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena announced a new desktop environment and accompanying applications, based on GTK+. This was called Gnome. Gnome became an acceptable desktop environment. It was quick, malleable and very friendly for most of the users. In May 2000, Gnome 1.2 Bongo was released.

Oracle and Sun supported Linux versions officially. So the OS became increasingly popular. And as a result, more system admins started to use the penguin versions it in their server rooms.

2000 to 2005: Time for distros to come live.

These were some glorious time for Linux team.

Knoppix was a Debian-based distro. It was developed by Klaus Knopper. This became popular. The main feature of this was it could boot directly from a CD. Knoppix 1.4 was released on 30 September 2000 with some more extra features.

Knoppix was followable. So some of the Knoppix-based distros are still with us.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) was conceived with a book by Gerard Beekmans. It helped users through instructing them on building their Linux system from source.

To ensure the protection of Linux and making the advancements, Linux Foundation was started in 2000. Their work was to sponsor the work of Linus and the community who helps to make Linux more.

Red Hat also enjoyed on the stock market. It also made some money via the support of its free Red Hat Linux OS. They adopted a more business-like and commercial approach.

This split the team in two. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 was released with kernel 2.4.9. This version had more stability and long-term support for the enterprise user.

December 2002, the world saw the release of another distro called CRUX. Their main thing was 'keep it simple' theme. And it became popular in that time.

The time came when Linux distros were starting to grow very fast. Users were using CRUX in replacement of Windows. Because CRUX looks smarter than Windows. When kernel 2.4 was doing well, version 2.6 was released on 18 December. It came with some support for PAE, new CPUs, improved 64-bit support, 16TB filesystem sizes, EXT4 and more.

As the Linux distro was gaining more and more users. But there was still a distance from those users who preferred the flavourings of Microsoft. So there was need of something that would make Linux more human, and show more humanity. That means Ubuntu was required.

It was based on Debian. And Ubuntu's aim was to create an easy desktop to give best user experiences. Ubuntu 4.10, the Warty Warthog was released on 20 October 2004. And the dream came true.

2006 to NOW

Situation of Ubuntu

So now, we are at present.

Many different distros were released from 2006. One has become the fourth most-used operating system in the world. And also the most popular distro.

Linux Mint 1.0, Ada was released in 2006. It was with a heady mixture of FOSS and proprietary software. It is one of the bests.

KDE4 was released. Linus himself state that KDE 4.0 was a "break everything" and "halfbaked" release. But it had the Plasma desktop, and the cutting-edge look and feel. Users loved that. KDE 4.2 was released in 2009.

23 September, the world saw the opening of the new Linux. It's Android. Yes, most of Android users don't know that they are using a Linux based system.

Ubuntu arrived at the top of the Linux charts. It had many users because of it's easy to use environment. But at the 14th release, it came with Unity. Users hated that and still hate. Ubuntu fell from their favour and struggling to keep up.

Happy Birthday, Linux!

So, the time machine stops here. Because we already reached to the present day. Yes, till now we've seen many Linux distros. Do you want to wish 25th Birthday to Linux? Wish that with your style. But don't forget to share the post. Share this post with your friends and let everyone know about the history of Linux and celebrate the birthday with knowing about the OS. Thanks for coming to the end.

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