Linux & Cluster

Simply put, Linux is a flavor (clone) of the original Unix operating systems. While Linux is relatively new on the operating system scene, arriving about two decades after Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of AT&T presented the first Unix paper at a Purdue University symposium in 1973, it has rapidly become one of the most widely known and used Unix derivatives. Ever since Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, released it in October 1991, developers from all over the world have been improving, extending, and modifying the source code. Linus has remained the godfather of the Linux source code, ensuring that it does not get overwhelmed with useless features, code bloat, and bad programming.