In 2009, Brazil carried out the largest thin-client deployment of Linux to date, with 350,000 nodes.

The federal government of Brazil favors Linux operating systems over all others in its PCs.

The Indian state of Kerala made it mandatory for all of its high schools to run Linux on their computers.

The Xandros distribution helped make the netbook craze possible when it was chosen by ASUS for the first iterations of the EeePC.

Ubuntu was the first Linux distribution to be offered by a major OEM (Dell) to desktop users.

Red Hat was one of the first commercial Linux distributions to truly cater to the enterprise.

The first commercially-produced, live-CD distribution of Linux was Yggdrasil, released in 1992.

Debian v. 4.0’s source code contains 283 million lines of code.

The Debian distribution was one of the first truly community-oriented Linux coding projects. $7.37 billion: would be projected cost to produce that amount of code in a commercial environment.

Linux gained traction beyond the coder cult with 1993’s Slackware distribution, which was easier for non-programmers to use.