Things you didnt know about Kannada Movies

1. Mani Ratnam’s debut movie was in Kannada. Pallavi Anu Pallavi
2. Anil Kapoor (debuted) was the hero of the Kannada movie Pallavi Anu Pallavi
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4. Juhi Chawala first major hit was Premaloka 1987. IMDB comment “You have seen QSQT, u have seen DDLJ, u have seen Maine Pyar Kiya, but if you have not seen Prema Loka, then u haven’t seen the movie that started the trend which was followed by the romantic movie makers all over India. Prema Loka has a very fresh and lively look to it and considering that it was shot in 1987, it was way ahead of its time. Ravichandran as the débutant director and actor is wonderful in the movie. Juhi Chawla, who went on to act in some of the blockbuster Hindi movies,is at her pretty and bubbly best. Ravichandran has taken every minute detail into consideration. This is probably the first movie in India which truly made a fashion statement. He also imported a Honda bike, for the movie.”
5. Prithvi Raj Kapoor played role of Rajkumar’s father in the movie Sakshatkara -1971
6. Girish Kasaravalli has to his distinction four Golden Lotus Awards max for any director.
7. Raj Kumar won 9 state awards for acting but no national award. Surprisingly enough he won a national award for singing. I guess he is the only superstar who won national award for singing.
8. The silent movie Pushpaka Vimana got released in 4 languages. Pesum Padam (India: Tamil title) Pushpaka Vimana (India: Kannada title) Pushpaka Vimanam (India: Malayalam title) The Love Chariot (India: English title). And it was shot in Bangalore.
9. Famous DD serial Malgudi days was directed by Shankar Nag. He also directed “Swamy” later. He was the youngest director to direct Raj Kumar in Ondu Muthina Kathe.
10. Sati Sulochana released in 1934 was the first Kannada talkie movie was shot mostly at Chatrapathi Studio in Kolhapur.
11. Most famous conductor of kannada Cinema is Rajani and Most famous auto driver is Shankar Nag.
12. Rajanikanth debuted in Katha Sangama directed by Puttana Kanagal in 1975
13. Mungaru Male is the only movie to run more than one year in PVR cinemas
14. Balu Mahendra noted Tamil director started his career as director with the movie Kokila which got him National Award. He went on to direct Sadma later.
15. Kishan Shrikanth(Master Kishan) is the youngest person to direct a professional feature film. Movie: C/o Footpath
16. Puneet Rajkumar won the National Award for best child artist in “bettada huvu”
17. Arjun Sarja was one of the most celebrated child artist in Kannada film industry
18. The longest running Kannada movie was Bangarada Manushya with Rajkumar as hero. It did two years in States in Majestic. The movie was directed by Siddalingaiah inspired many city lads to go back to villages and take farming.
19. Ilayaraja started his career as an assistant to noted Kannada music director GK Venkatesh
20. The first hero of Kannada cinema was Subbaiyanaidu.
21. I guess Kannada film industry has/had more engineers as heros than other :) Sudeep. Ramesh, Sunil etc
22. Bollywood singer Latha Mangeshkar’s first Kannada song Bellane Belagayithu. is for the film ‘Sangolli Rayanna’. Mohammad Rafi’s Ninelli Nadave Dhoora. And Kishore Kumar’s Aadu Aata Aadu.
23. ‘Samskara’ is the first ever Kannada film to get the President’s Gold Medal. The wave of new cinema started from then on. Girish Karnad made debut as an actor in this film.
24. Atul Kulkarni of Rang De Basanti and Hey Ram started his film career through Bhoomigite directed by Kesari. The film won a National Award in a special category
25. Sharavegada Saradara”, the first 70 mm Kannada film released in 1988, which became the launching pad for Kumara Bangarappa, actor turned politician and Son of Bangarappa, Ex CM of Karnataka.
26. Amarshilpi Jakanachari which released in 1964 is the first color movie in the Kannada language.
27. Kannada movie ‘Shanthi’ was included in Guiness book of World Records for having only one character in whole movie played by Bhavana.
28. First ever indian movie to get dubbed to other language is kannada movie “Harishchandra

Google removes 85 dangerous apps from Android Play Store, check this list to ensure they are not in your phone

HIGHLIGHTS

• These apps were available in the form of game, TV, and remote control simulator apps.
• These apps have been downloaded over nine million times from the Play Store.
• The researchers found another type of fake apps also that exhibited a different type of ad-showing behavior.

Google has removed a total of 85 malicious apps from Play Store after security researchers found these apps to be a disguise of an adware family. These apps were available in the form of game, TV, and remote control simulator apps on the Android Play Store.

The issue was first reported by the security researchers at Trend Micro. "This adware is capable of displaying full-screen ads, hiding itself, monitoring a device's screen unlocking functionality, and running in the mobile device's background," said the researchers at Trend Micro in the blog.

According to the blog post, these apps have been downloaded over nine million times from the Play Store with one of the apps named "Easy Universal TV Remote" has alone been downloaded over 5 million times. It is the most downloaded apps among the list of all 85 adware apps. The app also received multiple comments until the time it was available on the Play Store.

Despite coming from different developers and signed by different APK public key certificates, the apps exhibited same source code and shared the same source code.

So what harm could these apps actually cause you? Once downloaded and launched, these apps display a full-screen pop-up ad asking you repeatedly to press various buttons to continue. Every new page in the steps would open a new ad page. This would happen again and again until the app finally crashed. 
Some of the malware apps would disappear after showing that it is buffering . These apps would still run in the background and show up in every half an hour on the device.

The researchers found another type of fake apps also that exhibited a different type of ad-showing behavior. These apps would track the screen unlocking action and display ads every time user locked the phone's screen. 
This is not that Google has removed such click fraud apps from the Play Store. The tech giant in November removed 13 malicious apps from Play Store after they were found to lack legitimate functionality. Later in December, it removed another 22 fake apps for having a backdoor built into them that helped the apps do ad-fraud.

Here is the list of some of the malicious apps that you should not have on your phone:

-- SPORT TV
-- Prado Parking Simulator 3D
-- TV WORLD
-- City Extremepolis 100
-- American Muscle Car
-- Idle Drift
-- Offroad Extreme
-- Remote Control
-- Moto Racing
-- TV Remote
-- A/C Remote
-- Bus Driver
-- Trump Stickers 
-- Love Stickers
-- TV EN ESPAÑOL
-- Christmas Stickers
-- Parking Game
-- TV EN ESPAÑOL
-- TV IN SPANISH
-- Brasil TV
-- Nigeria TV 
-- WORLD TV 
-- Drift Car Racing Driving 
-- BRASIL TV 
-- Golden 
-- TV IN ENGLISH 
-- Racing in Car 3D Game 
-- Mustang Monster Truck Stunts 
-- TDT España 
-- Brasil TV 
-- Challenge Car Stunts Game 
-- Prado Car 
-- UK TV 
-- POLSKA TV 
-- Universal TV Remote 
-- Bus Simulator Pro 
-- Photo Editor Collage 1
-- Spanish TV 
-- Kisses 
-- Prado Parking City 
-- SPORT TV 
-- Pirate Story 
-- Extreme Trucks 
-- Canais de TV do Brasil 
-- Prado Car 10 
-- TV SPANISH 
-- Canada TV Channels 1
-- Prado Parking 
-- 3D Racing 
-- TV 
-- USA TV 50,000 
-- GA Player 
-- Real Drone Simulator 
-- PORTUGAL TV 
-- SPORT TV 1
-- SOUTH AFRICA TV 
-- 3d Monster Truck 
-- ITALIA TV 
-- Vietnam TV 
-- Movies Stickers 
-- Police Chase 
-- South Africa TV 
-- Garage Door Remote 
-- Racing Car 3D 
-- TV 
-- TV Colombia 
-- Racing Car 3D Game 
-- World Tv 
-- FRANCE TV 
-- Hearts 
-- TV of the World 
-- WORLD TV 
-- ESPAÑA TV 
-- TV IN ENGLISH 
-- TV World Channel 
-- Televisão do Brasil 
-- CHILE TV

11 FACTS ABOUT WORLD HUNGER

1. 11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.
2. The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it. Fight hunger in your community by collecting food outside a local supermarket. 
3. 10 countries that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela.
4. Poverty is the principal cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself.
5. In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.
6. Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.
7. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most of them from hunger-related causes.
8. While hunger exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia.
9. Over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 1 in 4 people in this region is chronically hungry.
10. When a mother is undernourished during pregnancy, the baby is often born undernourished, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this way due to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.
11. Similarly, women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year.

25 Interesting Facts About Websites

1. IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of “actresses with beautiful eyes.” 

2. Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com are owned by the same company, InterActiveCorp, who also own CollegeHumor, Vimeo, and 50 other internet websites. 

3. After the Haiti earthquake, the “Feed The Children” website claimed that the charity was “providing medical relief for 12,000 people”. In reality, they sent a total of three doctors, and two weeks after the earthquake it emerged that they had fed zero people.

4. Yelp.com uses extortionist tactics to coerce business owners into paying a monthly fee in order to remove negative reviews and to keep positive ones un-“filtered.” 

5. The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com 

6. Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses, was sued for $21 million by a former employee, who says she damaged her wrists while typing up hundreds of fake profiles of sexy women.

7. Microsoft once threatened to sue a high school student named Mike Rowe for creating a website called MikeRoweSoft.com. 

8. You are three times more likely to get a virus from a church website than you are to get from a pornographic website.

9. Www.whitehouse.com used to be a p*rn website, resulting in many schoolchildren in the late 1990s being accidentally exposed to adult content via the website.

10. Madonna uploaded an album of her to p2p sites with all of the songs in the loop of her saying “what the f**k you think you’re doing?” and in retort a hacker defaced her website with direct links to the album saying “This is the f**k i think im doing.”

11. In 2012, a hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John’s website because the company “took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food.” 

12. Sony once sued itself. RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept. 

13. NBC was forced to buy hornymanatee.com after Conan O’Brien mentioned the domain name on his show. 

14. The website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme. 

15. In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell their website to Excite for $1 million. Excite turned them down. 

16. The creators of Breaking Bad made a real savewalterwhite.com, and it has raised over $125,000 for The National Cancer Coalition.

17. The Offspring wanted to release their album ‘Conspiracy Of One’ (2000) from their website as a free download stating that ‘peer-to-peer downloads don’t hurt sales’ until their label threatened to sue. 

18. Stargate was the first film to have an official dedicated website, in 1994. 

19. elgoog.com(google backwards) has a huge following in China because elgooG search terms are printed in reverse, so users are able to perform Google searches without detection by the Chinese government’s search filters. 

20. There is a website that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie in a theater, so you don’t miss anything too important.

21. In 2001, Neopets was the fourth most trafficked website on the internet, 8 spots in front of Google. 

22. McDonald’s didn’t register “McDonalds.com” and had to donate to a school to get the domain from the Wired magazine writer, who had registered it in 1994. 

23. MartinLutherKing.org is actually a website designed by a brutal, xenophobic, racist group called StormFront (US-based) to discredit King. 

24. The government of “Free State, South Africa” spent $4 million on their website with a $40 WordPress theme.

25. In 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months. 

27 Smartest People On The Planet

There's no doubt that Einstein and Edison were super smart, but today, we've found a new class of 'smart'. Because seriously, IQ levels are reaching new heights and needless to say, innovation and creativity is only getting better by the day. In the light of which, wouldn't it be terrible to miss out on these geniuses who are currently the smartest minds in town?

Here are some you must know about if you don't already!

1. Stephen Hawking (IQ: 160-170)

Pure genius, this astrophysicist! Despite undergoing depression and motor neuron disease, he managed to reinvent his academic career and today, is famous for his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, has pioneered several theories on black holes and made plenty of guest appearances in various TV shows like The Simpsons , Futurama and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

2. Edward Witten (IQ: Unknown)

String theory, M-theory, quantum gravity and super-symmetry. Do these words sound familiar to you? Well, this man has contributed plenty to these. As a physicist, he has been described as “the most brilliant physicist of his generation” and “the world’s greatest living theoretical physicist.” He's also a part of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of the world with  accolades like the Fields Medal, the Dirac Prize, the Albert Einstein Medal and the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.

3. Noam Chomsky (IQ: Unknown)

Guess who is the “father of modern linguistics"? He is, of course! A cognitive scientist, philosopher and political observer, his work revolutionized everything from artificial intelligence to music theory. And he has authored over a 100 books. Furthermore, he was voted into world's Top 100 Public Intellectual in a 2005 poll.

4. Manahel Thabet (IQ: 168)

This Yemeni scientist, economist and consultant is a part of the top 0.1% of highest IQs of the world. She's also the youngest person and the only Arab to ever attain such distinction. She's won many awards, including UN's Humanitarian award. One brilliant woman she is!

5. Judit Polgár (IQ: 170)

Behold the best female chess prayer in history! Polgar was a child prodigy, becoming a grandmaster at the age of 11, and at present, is the only chess player in the World Chess Federation’s Top 100 Players list! Here's a fun fact: Apparently, Polgar was raised by her father as a project to prove that “geniuses are made, not born.” Well sir, we got your point!

6. Andrew Wiles (IQ: 170)

So this man is an award-winning English Mathematician, best known for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1995, which according to The Guinness Book of World Records is one of the world’s “most difficult mathematical problems". Wow man, a 358-year-old-theorem solved! Brilliant!

7. Grigori Perelman (IQ: Unknown)

This guy first makes landmark contributions in mathematics and then decides to leave it all together! He baffled everyone with his work, and was even awarded the Fields Medal (which is Nobel in maths), but he declined the award saying, "I’m not interested in money or fame; I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.” Some swag!

8. John Sununu (IQ: 180)

A member of Mega Society, a society of people with really high IQ, Sununu, a mechanical engineer, after spending years as the dean of engineering for Massachusetts-based Tufts University, he became the Governor of New Hampshire, and then moved on to the White House as the Chief of Staff! Quite a journey, except he had to step down because of alleged power abuse!

9. Ruth Lawrence (IQ: Unknown)

A former child prodigy, this British mathematician made headlines in 1985 after obtaining a bachelor's degree from Oxford University at 13 years of age! Can you believe it? Currently, she's an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ’s Einstein Institute of Mathematics and is working on algebraic topology and knot theory, which is apparently mindbogglingly complicated for any practical usage yet.

10. Magnus Carlsen (IQ: 190)

Meet the reigning World Chess Champion, Carlsen, who's the youngest player to ever be ranked number one. He was personally coached by chess icon Garry Kasparov until 2010. So far,  he's won 7 chess Oscars and has been regarded as "the genius who'll only get better."

11. Saul Kripke (IQ: Unknown)

So hear this. A rabbi's son, Kripke was invited to teach at Harvard when he was still in high school! You ask why? Well, as a teenager he wrote a series of papers that eventually transformed the study of modal logic! His research and theories include the Kripke-Platek set theory, his causal theory of reference and his “Kripkenstein” theory. He is also an award-winning logician and philosopher who has been ranked the seventh most important philosopher of the past two centuries.

12. Benjamin Netanyahu (IQ: 180)

The first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the establishment of the state, this guy is clearly a smart chap with an IQ that high! He was listed as number 11 on The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010.

13. Akshay Venkatesh (IQ: Unknown)

This Math prodigy won the bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad when he was just 11! He was born in Australia, but is an Indian by origin and is the youngest person to study in the University of Western Australia! Furthermore, he received his PHD at the age of 20 from Princeton. Clearly a brilliant mathematician!

14. Shahriar Afshar (IQ: Unknown)

This Iranian American Physicist and entrepreneur has notably invented the award-winning “4D” Soundkix mini speaker and is currently ranked the 8th smartest person alive with a number of groundbreaking inventions. Currently, he is a visiting research professor of physics at New Jersey’s Rowan University as well as the president, CTO and CEO of consumer electronics start up Immerz.

15. Steven Pinker (IQ: Unknown)

Say hello to this Canadian visual cognition and psycho-linguistics expert, who is currently a professor at Harvard. And the man has much more to offer. His awards and medals include a Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences and a Royal Institution Henry Dale Prize.

16. Evangelos Katsioulis (IQ: 198)

Does he not look like a bald version of Sheldon Cooper? Well regardless, he is equally brilliant because only 1 in 30 million people match his intelligence level.He is currently a member of 28 IQ societies and has formed the World Intelligence Network IQ society!

17. Donald Knuth (IQ: Unknown)

Here we have the “father” of algorithmic analysis, who is also a renowned computer scientist and mathematician, famous for his multi-volume tome The Art of Computer Programming. Trying saying this in one breath and you'll know how smart he really is!

18. James Woods (IQ: 180)

I'm sure you've spotted this man in several Hollywood flicks such as White House Down and The Virgin Suicides. But did you know that he's a former MIT graduate in political science? He went there on scholarship after perfecting the pre-SATs with 800 and 799 on the verbal and math portions, respectively. How cool is this man?

19. Mislav Predavec (IQ: 190)

“Very difficult intelligence tests are my favorite hobby.” Well, if that's his hobby, just imagine his professional skills! He's also the third smartest person alive, and has initiated several high IQ societies like GenerIQ.  Clearly an ace Croatian mathematician!

20. Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ: 186)

Not only has this wonderful lady made it to The Guinness Book of World Recordsas the person possessing the highest IQ in 1986, but also has column after her name called " Ask MarilynI " in the Parade Magazine. Although with a controversial stand on her IQ, according to which she'd earlier scored a whopping 228 but then took the Mega Test to score 186, in 1989 the New Yorkmagazine regarded her and her husband Robert Jarvik – who designed the first successful artificial heart were regarded as “the smartest couple in New York.”

21. Paul Allen (IQ: 160-170)

This co-founder of Microsoft who had to resign from his post in 2000 due toHodgkin’s lymphoma, has to be a genius to start something this awesome! Alongside, he launched the Allen Institute for Brain Science in 2003, founded space transport company Stratolaunch Systems in 2011, and is a renownedphilanthropist with donations that exceed $1.5 billion!

22. Garry Kasparov (IQ: 190)

Magnus Carlsen's guru, 'legendary' is probably an understatement to describe this chess player. If you didn't know, he's the guy who took on IBM computer Deep Blue for an opponent and won with a score of 4-2. Currently he's focusing on politics and writing after retiring from chess in 2005.

23. Christopher Langan (IQ: 195-210)

Some say he's the smartest man alive because he taught himself how to read at the age of 4. Some special kind of genius this man is! What's even more intriguing is that he dropped out of college and then worked as a doorman to eventually develop his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe.

24. Richard Rosner (IQ: 190)

You'd be amazed at this guy's career road as he claims to have been employed as a stripper, doorman, male model and waiter. He has written for several TV shows such as JImmy Kimmel LIve and is famous for his appearance in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2000. He also has a bit of a competitive streak as despite placing second in the World Genius Directory’s 2013 Genius of the Year Award, behind Greek psychiatrist Evangelos Katsioulis, he took to reading for 20 hours a day, in order to outdo him.

25. Kim Ung-Yong (IQ: 210)

Imagine sustaining an IQ score of over 200 since age 4! He's a former GuinnessWorld Record holder for highest IQ, and is currently a civil engineer in Korea. But, guess when he started his university education? At the age of 3! And by the time he hit 16, he had received a PHD in Physics from the Colorado State University and was working with NASA! Wow, right?

26. Christopher Hirata (IQ: 225)

Speaking of intellectuals, Hirata was 13 years old when he became the youngest U.S. citizen to receive an International Physics Olympiad gold medal. I couldn't even make my bed at 13! But this guy started studying at the California Institute of Technology at 14 and was working for NASA, on human accommodations on Mars, at 16! Currently he's a professor at The Ohio State University with specialties in dark energy, gravitational lensing, the cosmic microwave background, galaxy clustering, and general relativity!

27. Terence Tao (IQ: 230)

This 'Mozart of Maths' is probably the smartest dude on the this planet at this particular hour! This Australian child prodigy used to teach 5 year old kids how to spell and add when he was just 2! Imagine that, and by the time he turned 10 he was writing International Maths Olympiads! By the time he was 16, he earned his bachelors and masters and at the age of 20, his P.H.D. Guess who can beat that? No one!

P.S. Measuring IQ is an inexact science, however, based on several tests and noteworthy brilliance, the tests are taken and an estimated average range of score is calculated!

27 Interesting Facts About Linux

It’s Linux’s 27th birthday so here’s a list 27 interesting facts about Linux, its creator Linus Torvalds, and the impact that his “hobby” OS has had on the world we live in.

Since its creation back in 1991 the open source Unix-like operating system has gone on to revolutionize the world, empower startups, birth new industries, and give agency to new types of gadgets, gizmos and gateways.

The beating heart of the modern world and an omnipresent force in daily digital life: Linux is everywhere

Linux is the dominant OS in cloud, in IoT, and on mobile. And while it might not have “won” the desktop war (yet) there’s no denying that its collaborative, freely available nature has had a major influence on a swathe of its competitors.

The beating heart of the modern world, and an omnipresent force pervading daily digital life: Linux is everywhere. You’ll find powering high-speed trains and and high-end supercomputers as well as smartphones, space faring robots, and super-secure routers.

So to celebrate 27 years of this crazy can-do kernel here’s a list of 27 facts about Linux, cunningly cobbled together from a compendium of community sources, interviews with its creator, and copious cuts from publicly available data.

27 Interesting Facts about Linux

1. There are 20,323,379 lines of code in the Linux kernel as of 2018. That might sound like a lot but it’s actually the smallest the kernel has been for some time! Even so, despite the recent reductions, the huge line count means Linux remains the single largest open source project on the planet.

2. Linux very nearly wasn’t called Linux! Linus wanted to call his “hobby” project “FreaX” (a combination of “free”, “freak” and “Unix”). Thankfully, he was persuaded otherwise by the owner of the server hosting his early code, who happened to prefer the name “Linux” (a combination of “Linus” and “Unix”).

3. Though he wrote 100% of the first Linux release less than 1% of the latest kernel release includes code written by Linus Torvalds. The guy isn’t slacking though; Linus is now kept busy managing and merging code written by other developers.

4. Linux is used by every major space programme in the world, including NASA and the ESA. Private space companies like SpaceX also leverage it, with the latter having completed 65 space missions (and counting) with the assistance of a fault-resistant Linux system in their powerful Falcon 9 rockets.

5. Talking of the wider universe, there are actual asteroids in actual space named after Linux and Linus Torvalds — whether space geek or tech geek, it seems we geeks like to stick together!

6. Tux, the Linux mascot, is a penguin, but have you ever wondered why it’s a penguin? The answer depends on who you ask: Linus recounts a story in which he was bitten by an angry penguin, infecting him with a (made-up) disease called “penguinitis”. Others say its selection was due to Linus’ fondness for the animal and/or its unsuitability as a corporate logo.

7. Linux totally dominates supercomputers. As of 2018 100% of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers run Linux. Impressive!

8. The Linux development community is incredibly active. Changes to the kernel were merged at an average rate of 7.8 patches per hour over the past 15 months, according to numbers crunched by the folks at the non-profit The Linux Foundation (who pay Linus’ salary).

9. Early Linux development took place on the MINIX operating system, leading Linus to adopt a file system layout similar to Minix for his fledgling project. It didn’t last; proving inefficient, Linus later replaced it with the ‘Extended file system’, better known as ext, versions of which are still in use today.

10. Linux 1.0, was released on March 14, 1994, more than three years after Linus’ initial announcement. It featured 176,250 lines of code. Version 2.0 followed in 1996.

11. Linux runs on everything, from smartphones and servers to submarines and space rockets. Our list of 25 things powered by Linux highlights the most impressive uses of the versatile kernel.

12. Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds a job in 2000, on the condition that he stopped development on Linux. Linus (thankfully) declined.

13. Need proof of how successful Linux is? Take a look at its long-time arch-rival, Microsoft .  The company who famously tried to ‘extinguish’ the project in the late 90s and early 00s now leverages Linux in its server business. It even contributes to kernel development!

14. Talking of contributions, Google, Intel, Huawei, Samsung, Red Hat, Canonical and Facebook are among the top contributors to Linux kernel development in recent years.

15.  Linus was born in Finland, a bilingual country, and considers Swedish to be his “mother tongue”. He says he’s often “uncomfortable” speaking in english because of pronunciation differences, but prefers to read english books.

16. It may be the biggest free software project now (see #1) but when the very first kernel was released back in 1991 it was made up of a comparatively minuscule 10k lines of code — baby Linux!

17. Following a rejig of its development and release schedules, a new version of the Linux kernel is now released every 66 days or so, with new point releases appearing regularly in-between.

18. Linux isn’t Linus Torvalds’ only celebrated creation. The famous Finn is also responsible for the Git versioning system and the scuba diving app ‘Subsurface’.

19. Those breathtaking special effects you see in movie blockbusters? Well, they’re (partly) thanks to Linux. An estimated 90% of Hollywood visual effects rely on Linux at some stage in the production pipeline.

20. Over 95% of Linux is written in C language, according to data crunched by the openhub.net website.

21. Bizarre though it may sound 13.3% of the latest Linux kernel is made up of …blank lines. Pointless? Hardly: blank lines are part of the strict coding style that keeps the kernel tidy, efficient and ordered.

22. Android is the most successful operating system on the planet — bar none — with over 2 billion active monthly users worldwide, according to Google. And what does Android run on? Why the Linux kernel, of course!

23. Each kernel release is given a codename. Recent codenames include “Fearless Coyote” (v4.13) and “Merciless Moray” (v4.18).

24. 9 out of top 10 public clouds run on Linux according to Red Hat who, as one of the most successful Linux companies in history, probably know what they’re talking about.

25. Ubuntu is the the worlds most popular Linux-based desktop operating system. It boasts an estimated 20 million users worldwide. Linux has a 2% share of desktop computer use.

26. The first book to be published about Linux was Matt Welsh’s ‘Linux Installation and Getting Started’ back in 1993. The first dedicated magazine, Linux Journal, was published a year later in March 1994. The first issue carried an interview with Linus.

27. Linux is the most famous example of open source software but did you know that it wasn’t always that way? Early versions of Linux was distributed with a license forbidding commercial use or redistribution. It was version 0.12, released in 1992, that saw Linus adopt the GPL, making his code freely available to all.