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Period: 1969 BCE to 1969 BCE
Linus Torvalds
Born on December 28, 1969 in Finland, he is a software engineer known for initiating and maintaining the development of the Linux kernel, based on the free Minix operating system and some tools, various utilities and compilers developed by the project. GNU. He is currently responsible for coordinating the project. Font ( http://www.iuma.ulpgc.es/ ) -
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RICHARD STALLMAN
In 1971, Stallman became a hacker at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (IAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the 1980s, the hacker culture that made up Stallman's life began to dissolve under the pressure of commercialization in the software industry. In particular, other hackers from the AI lab founded the company Symbolics, which was actively trying to replace the Lab's free software with their own proprietary software. -
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Create Minix
In 1988 he entered the University of Helsinki where he learned about computer science and met Andew S. Tanenbaum who that same year created the Minix operating system. -
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Linux project
In 1991, at the age of 23, a computer science student at the University of Helsinki (Finland) named Linus Torvalds proposed as entertainment to make an operating system that behaves exactly like the UNIX operating system, but that works on any PC compatible computer. Later, Linus had to set the minimum requirement for the computer to have an i386 processor, since computers with older CPUs did not facilitate the development of a UNIX-compatible operating system. Font (histinf.blogs.upv.es) -
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Linux creation
On October 5, 1991, Linus announced the first `` official '' version of Linux, the 0.02 . This version could already run two basic GNU tools: the shell (bash) and the C compiler (gcc). Linux did not yet have anything about user support, distributions, documentation or anything like that (even today the Linux community treats these issues secondarily; kernel development remains first). -
Period: to 1993 BCE
Linux is improved
After the 0.03 version, Linus jumped to the 0.10 version, as more people began to participate in its development. After numerous revisions, it reached the 0.95 version, reflecting the hope of having a stable version ready very soon (generally, the 1.0 version of the programs is the first theoretically complete and without errors). This happened in March 1992. A year and a half later, in December 1993, Linux 1.0 was born. -
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Tux
Tux is the name of the official Linux mascot. Created by Larry Ewing in 1996, he is a funny-looking little penguin. The idea that the Linux kernel mascot was a penguin came from Linus Torvalds himself, creator of the Linux kernel.
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9793 Torvalds
In 1996, an asteroid was named "9793 Torvalds" in honor of Linus Torvalds. -
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Received the Nokia Foundation
In 1997, he received the Nokia Foundation Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at Uniform. -
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Received the "Pioneer Award"
In 1998 he received the "Pioneer Award" from the EFF.