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Linus Benedict Torvalds
Was born the person who started Linux. This modest project will evolve to the world famous Linux operating system and will make Linus one of the most influential people in the world of technology today. [https://history-computer.com/inventions/operating-system] -
Unix
Linux begins with UNIX, an operating system developed at AT&T Bell Labs. [https://content.netdevgroup.com/contents/linux-essentials/oDcxtUda8W/] -
Popularity
UNIX quickly gained popularity and by the 80s, major organizations like IBM and HP were creating their own UNIX systems.
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GNU project.
Richard Stallman was working along with the Free Software Foundation(FSF) to come up with the first free UNIX-like operating system.
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The first prototypes of Linux
Torvalds announced Linux to the world on 25 August 1991. He wrote about Linux on a Usenet newsgroup called “comp.os.minix"
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The first “official” version of Linux
Linus announced the first “official” version of Linux, version 0.02. At this point, Linus was able to run bash (the GNU Bourne Again Shell) and gcc (the GNU C compiler), but not much else was working.
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Slackware
One of the first systems to adopt the ‘new’ Linux kernel at that time. [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/] -
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The modern Linux desktop
The rise of the most influential founders of the modern Linux desktop: Slackware, Red Hat and Debian, along with the Linux Kernel growing to become 0.95, the first to be capable of running the X Window System. [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/] -
The first release of Linux
The first version(1.0) came out in 1994.
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Linux 1.0.0
Linux 1.0.0 was launched with a whopping 176,250 lines of code under its belt; thus was the start of something wonder [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/] -
The Red Hat
Based branch of Linux OSs were a fertile bunch during this five-year stretch. Notable releases such as Caldera, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Yellow Dog and Red Flag all began life from the sudden big bang of the ever-evolving Linux kernel, which was now, from 1995 to 2000, in versions 1.2.0 to 2.2.
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TUX
The official mascot for Linux, a penguin was announced in 1996.
The penguin was called ‘TUX'.
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The Debian based systems
The Debian based systems began to grow and favored a much less technical server room approach to their distros [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux] -
KDE (Kool Desktop Environment)
Was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, who proposed not just a set of working applications, but also an entire desktop environment for them to work in. [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/] -
Gnome
Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena announced the development of a new desktop environment and accompanying applications. Based on GTK+ this new desktop environment was called Gnome. [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/] -
Ubuntu
Based on Debian, Ubuntu’s aim was to create an easy-to-use Linux desktop that could be updated to include the latest offerings by the end user with very little experience in Linux. [https://bdmpublications.com/brief-history-linux/]