A short history of Linux Operating System

A Short History of Linux

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Version 3.0 of the

Linux kernel

is released.

Oracle releases its own

distribution of Red Hat.

Novell and Microsoft

announce a cooperation for

a better interoperability.

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.

Dell starts distributing

laptops with Ubuntu

pre-installed

in them.

A group of developers begin

work on the graphical

environment GNOME,

destined to become

a free replacement for

KDE, which at the time,

depends on the, then

proprietary, Qt toolkit.

Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq

and Oracle announce

their support

for Linux.

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.

In addition a group

of programmers begins

developing

the graphical

user interface KDE.

Uses

-Desktop

-Gaming Platform

-Server and Clusters

-Mobile devices

-Embedded systems

-Supercomputers

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.

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

graphical user interface

Linux is connect to the

DEC Alpha and to the

Sun SPARC. Over the

following years it is connect

to an ever greater number

of platforms.

The Linux kernel is relicensed under the GNU GPL.

The first time it called

“Linux distributions”

are created.

The Linux kernel is

publicly announced on

25 August by

the 21 years old Finnish

student Linus Benedict

Torvalds

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.

Torvalds announced in 1996 that there would be a mascot for Linux, a penguin. The name Tux was suggested by James Hughes as derivative of Torvalds' UniX.

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.

Linux kernel which has a very broad hardware support can work in complete harmony with server computers, desktop-laptop computers, workstations, smartphones, a new generation of TVs and tablets.

Linux is the core of an operating system which has improved to support Unix in an intellectual and technical means, it is open source, free, and free of charge (excluding support).