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* Home automation can be made possible with Linux along with a small computer like a Raspberry Pi. It can be used to control home with Siri, mount a Google Calendar tablet on wall, set up a home surveillance system, control blinds and air conditioner, stream music , build a digital photo frame, build a sunrise alarm clock amd many more.
* Pakistan is using Linux in many of its public schools and colleges and plans to ultimately run it on all of its government computer systems
* The Sony Playstation 3 gaming console had previously made it possible to run Linux on a seperate hard drive partion. Scientific entities networked together consoles for powerful clusters. <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>The United States Air Force Research Laboratory</a> assembled a super computer by cluster 1760 Playstation 3 Consoles.
* Linux is in space. Ubuntu is used at the International Space Station. <a href='https://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Used-on-the-International-Space-Station-to-Control-Rover-Back-on-Earth-454101.shtml' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'> Read more </a>

Other adoptions of Linux from around the world can be viewed <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here</a> and <a href='http://www.comparebusinessproducts.com/fyi/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>here</a>