From IT Mission Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, Howtos - Itmission.org

Main: HistoryOfLinux


History of Linux, A small description.

Where to get more information on the history ?

Linus Benedict Torvalds Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. -

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA/SwRavCzVE7gJ

Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement.

http://www.revolution-os.com/

The Code – another documentary film about Linux. The Code is a Finnish-made documentary about GNU/Linux from 2001, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3498228245415745977

The Cathedral and the Bazaar. - is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail.

Copyleft is a form of licensing and can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works such as computer software, documents, and art.

History ...the beginning ..


Evolution of Linux !

1969-- Unix and C Programming Langage. -- ken Thompson and Deniss Ritche

1978 -- Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) developed -- Bill Joy

1983 -- Free Software Foundtion GNU/GPL -- Richard Stallman

1991 -- Linux Launched -- Linus Torvalds-- History of Linux

1995 -- Apache Web Server Released -- Brian Behlendorf

1998 -- Netscape Launched as Open Source.

1999 -- Red Hat --- Michael Tiemann 2000 -- OpenOffice -- Danese Coper


1983: Richard Stallman creates the GNU project with the goal of creating a free operating system.

1989: Richard Stallman writes the first version of the GNU General Public License.

1991: The Linux kernel is publicly announced on 25 August by the 21 year old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds.[10]

1992: The Linux kernel is relicensed under the GNU GPL. The first so called “Linux distributions” are created.

1993: Over 100 developers work on the Linux kernel. With their assistance the kernel is adapted to the GNU environment, which creates a large spectrum of application types for Linux. The oldest currently existing Linux distribution, Slackware, is released for the first time. Later in the same year, the Debian project is established. Today it is the largest community distribution.

1994: In March Torvalds judges all components of the kernel to be fully matured: he releases version 1.0 of Linux. The XFree86 project contributes a graphic user interface (GUI). In this year the companies Red Hat and SUSE publish version 1.0 of their Linux distributions.

1995: Linux is ported to the DEC Alpha and to the Sun SPARC. Over the following years it is ported to an ever greater number of platforms.

1996: Version 2.0 of the Linux kernel is released. The kernel can now serve several processors at the same time, and thereby becomes a serious alternative for many companies.

1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux. In addition a group of programmers begins developing the graphic user interface KDE.

1999: A group of developers begin work on the graphic environment GNOME, which should become a free replacement for KDE, which depended on the then proprietary Qt toolkit. During the year IBM announces an extensive project for the support of Linux.

2004: The XFree86 team splits up and joins with the existing X Window standards body to form the X.Org Foundation, which results in a substantially faster development of the X Window Server for Linux.

2005: The project openSUSE begins a free distribution from Novell's community. Also the project OpenOffice.org introduces version 2.0 that now supports OASIS OpenDocument standards in October.

2006: Oracle releases its own distribution of Red Hat. Novell and Microsoft announce a cooperation for a better interoperability.

2007: Dell starts distributing laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed in them.

2011: Version 3.0 of the Linux kernel is released.

Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux


Retrieved from http://www.itmission.org/Main/HistoryOfLinux
Page last modified on December 14, 2012, at 05:10 PM