There are approximately 180 million websites around the world. This is increasing every day, and they all need servers to host them, and very few site owners want the hassle of managing their hosting privately. Web hosting, by serving the world its web pages, plays a crucial role in keeping the internet viable. Given the enormity, responsibility and complexity of this task, it might come as a surprise to some that the operating system at the heart of many of the world’s web servers was originated by just one man, a Finnish computer science student by the name of Linus Thorvalds. [Read more…] about A brief history of Linux