Linux Solutions

While there are many open source programming codes in the open market, Linux is one of the more popular options in the industry and one which has seen an ever increasing number of uses. The programming code is flexible, easy to use and the amount of help and assistance online is probably second to none, but why is it so successful? Has the open source situation really made a difference?

The Linux code can be traced directly back to 1991 but there are examples of the code being used prior to this in differing forms. Since the very early days the code has been open source giving more and more people the opportunity to create their own Linux based products and help each other to push the code to another level. While normally programmers would be working against each other to bring new and exciting products to the market there has been much team working in pushing Linux to where it is today.

Many people will not be aware but Linux is the operating system for such well known products as the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, not to mention an array of other arcade gaming systems. While there are few systems which have actually suffered from their open source status, Linux seems to have benefited from this combined approach more than most. Even now we are seeing daily announcements of Linux based mobile phone gaming and communications systems, a market which is sure to grow and grow.

Quite where Linux is heading in the future is unsure because the flexibility that if offers over many other programming codes will always attract the major players of the industry. Even though many none computing people will have heard of the Windows operating system, they will not have a clue what Linux is, but the chances are that they will encounter a Linux system on a daily basis.