History Of Linux
In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki, Finland, introduced Linux. Torvalds work on the Linux project and wrote the source code for the Linux kernel (that is the core program of Linux OS). He made Linux available on the internet. Many programs added to the code, change it, and built-in support for all kinds of hardware. In fact, there are several versions of Linux available for the different hardware platform. Linux version 0.02 was introduced in 1991. Torvalds and hundreds of developers from across the world worked on it, and in March 1994, version 1.0 of Linux Kernel finally released.
Linux is a clone of and has written from scratch by Linus Torvalds. He was working on Minix; a miniature version of Unix, mainly used as a teaching aid in universities and colleges. He was impressed with the features of the Unix operating system. He wanted to create his own version of the Unix OS and give it free for use to everybody.
Since Linux is very similar to UNIX, it is important that you understand the origin and evolution of the Unix OS. Unix started off as a single user OS. In 1969, Ken Thompson, with ideas and help from Dennis Ritchie and others(team of developers in the Bell Labs), wrote a small, general-purpose operating system for small machines. The operating system developed, attached a larger number of an enthusiastic user, and was eventually developed to be a multi-user OS. In 1973, Thompson and Ritchie rewrote the Unix Operating system in C language, breaking away from the tradition of writing OS id assembly language. Around 1974, Unix was licensed to universities for educational purposes and few year later, was made commercially available.
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