Does the Internet Run on Linux?
Contents and Even If You’re on an iPhone or a Mac or a Windows Machine, Linux Is Working Behind the Scenes, Across the Internet, Serving up Most of the...
And even if you’re on an iPhone or a Mac or a Windows machine, Linux is working behind the scenes, across the Internet, serving up most of the webpages you view and powering most of the apps you use. Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Wikipedia—it’s all running on Linux.
What percentage of the Internet runs on Linux?
Looking deeper, Linux’s importance to the Web is even more extreme. By W3Cook’s analysis of Alexa’s data, 96.3 percent of the top 1 million web servers are running Linux. The remainder is split between Windows, 1.9 percent, and FreeBSD, 1.8 percent.
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Can I use Google on Linux?
Most Linux distributions include Mozilla Firefox as the default web browser. Google also offers an official version of Google Chrome for Linux, and you can even get an “unbranded” open-source version of Chrome named Chromium. Pretty much everything inside your web browser should “just work” in Linux.
Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.
