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Linus Torvalds announced Linux
On 25 August 1991, 21 years old student of Helsinki University sent a mail to a newsgroup on Usenet. -
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Linux
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Linux became Open Source
Linux Kernel was released under GPL -
Slackware Linux released
Slackware Linux is the oldest Linux development -
William R.D. Croce filed for Linux trademark
That guy then went on to demand royalties from Linux distributors. Linus Torvalds won the court battle three years later. -
First Linux Expo
First Linux specific tradeshow and conference series was launched by people at North Carolina State University -
Tux gets to be the symbol of Linux
Linus gets bit by a penguin and chooses it as linux mascot -
GNOME Project is born
GNOME is one of the most successful open source projects. It has been crucial to the spread of desktop Linux -
KDE 1.0 released
Another crucial part of desktop Linux, KDE project saw its first stable release in 1998 -
Linux users celebrated Windows Refund Day
They went to Microsoft’s offices to return their unused licenses of Windows -
Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds to work for Mac OS
Linus refused the offer and continued to work on Linux -
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said : “Linux is a cancer”
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Red Hat enterprise released
The first commercial Linux for Business IT was released in the year 2002 -
An attempt to insert a backdoor in the linux kernel source failed.
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Ubuntu 4.10 released
This new Linux distribution marketed itself as Linux for human being. -
Linus Torvalds created Git to maintain Linux kernel project
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Microsoft and Novell became partners
Microsoft and the owner of SUSE form an agreement to cooperate -
Linux kernel based android version 1.0 released
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Google's own desktop operating system Chrome OS
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Red Hat became first billion dollar open source company
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Ubuntu announced Ubuntu Phone project
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Microsoft has own version of linux
