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Linke turbidity factor
The Linke turbidity factor is a broadband measure of atmospheric turbidity, introduced by Linke in 1922, ranging from 1 in clean air to about 8 in polluted air.
Linke-Hofmann
Linke-Hofmann, later Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB), was a German rolling stock manufacturer founded in Breslau in 1839 that became one of Europe's largest wagon builders and was absorbed by Alstom in the 1990s.
Linked data
Linked data is a set of best practices for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web using RDF and SPARQL, from Tim Berners-Lee's four principles of 2006.
Linked list
A linked list is a linear data structure whose nodes hold values and pointers to neighboring nodes, developed in 1955 by Newell, Shaw, and Simon.
LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking platform launched in May 2003 and acquired by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion, with 1.2 billion members.
Linker (computing)
A linker, or link editor, is a system program that combines separately compiled object files into an executable or shared library, resolving symbolic references between them.
Linkerd
Linkerd is an open source service mesh for Kubernetes, created by Buoyant in 2016 and the first service mesh to graduate from the CNCF, in July 2021.
Linkou power station
Linkou power station is the coal-fired generating facility at Linkou, Heilongjiang, China; its operating plant is the 50 MW Linkou Shengye Cogen station, started in 2019.
LinkSpace (翎客航天)
LinkSpace, also known as Link Space Aerospace Technology, was a Beijing-based Chinese private rocket company founded by Hu Zhenyu in January 2014 to develop a reusable rocket.
Linksys
Linksys is an American consumer and small-business networking brand founded in 1988 by Victor and Janie Tsao, known for wireless routers, mesh Wi-Fi, and the WRT54G.
Linksys WRT54G series
The Linksys WRT54G series is a family of wireless-G broadband routers sold by Linksys from December 2002, combining an access point, switch, and router in one unit.
Linktree
Linktree is an Australian link-in-bio service founded in Melbourne in 2016. It is a creator economy tool, reporting more than 70 million users and 1.3 billion monthly profile views.
Linoleum
Linoleum is a resilient floor covering made from linseed oil, cork, and other natural materials, patented by Frederick Walton in 1860 and widely used through the 1960s.
Linos J. Jacovides
Linos J. Jacovides is an electrical engineer who led General Motors' Electrovair electric-vehicle program, headed Delphi Research Labs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
LINPACK
LINPACK is a computer performance benchmark that measures how fast a system solves dense linear equations, best known as the basis of the TOP500 supercomputer list.
Linseed oil
Linseed oil, also called flaxseed oil, is a drying oil pressed from flax seeds, used since the 15th century as the binder of oil paint and a wood finish.
Lint (software)
Lint is a static analysis tool that flags suspicious constructs and probable bugs in source code without running it, first written for C at Bell Labs in 1978.
Lintel
A lintel is a horizontal beam of stone, timber, steel, or concrete spanning the top of a door or window and carrying the weight above it.
Linus Sebastian
Linus Sebastian, full name Linus Gabriel Sebastian, is a Canadian technology YouTuber and entrepreneur who founded the Linus Tech Tips channel and Linus Media Group in Surrey, British Columbia.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer, born in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, who created the Linux kernel in 1991 and the Git version control system in 2005.
Linux
Linux is a free, open source operating system started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, running on Android phones, cloud servers, and all 500 top supercomputers.
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution, or Linux distro, is a complete operating system built around the Linux kernel with a package manager, such as Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu.
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is an American nonprofit that supports and hosts open source software projects, formed in 2007 and best known as steward of the Linux kernel.
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is the open-source, monolithic operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds, developed by thousands of contributors and running most smartphones, supercomputers, and cloud workloads.
Linux Mint
Linux Mint is a free, community-driven desktop Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu, started in 2006 by Clement Lefebvre, with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions.
Linux namespaces
Linux namespaces are a Linux kernel feature that gives processes an isolated view of resources such as process IDs, mounts, and networks, forming the basis of containers.
Linux Professional Institute
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a Canadian nonprofit founded in 1999 that provides vendor-neutral certifications for Linux and open source technologies, including the LPIC track, with over 350,000 certification holders in over 180 countries.
Linux Standard Base
The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is a Linux Foundation specification defining standard binary interfaces for Linux distributions, proposed in 1998, with its final release, LSB 5.0, issued in 2015.
Linxing Tight Gas Field
The Linxing Tight Gas Field (临兴致密气) is an onshore tight gas field on the eastern edge of China's Ordos Basin, operated by CNOOC and producing since 2020.
Linyi power station
Linyi power station, also known as Huaneng Linyi Power Generation Co., Ltd., is a 1,260 MW coal-fired cogeneration plant in Linyi, Shandong, China, operated by Huaneng.