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- Linus Torvalds begins working on Linux at University of Helsinki (1991)
- X Window System is ported to Linux (1992)
- Linux kernel is released under the GNU General Public License (1992)
- Debian Project is established (1993)
- Linux 1.0 is released (1994)
- Linux 2.0 is released (1996)
- KDE desktop environment is released (1998)
- Open Source Development Lab is created (2000)
- SCO Group files lawsuit against IBM for UNIX copyright (2003)
- Linux 2.6 is released (2003)
- X.Org Foundation is created (2004)
- openSUSE is formed (2005)
- Microsoft submits 22,000 lines of source code to Linux kernel (2009)
- Ubuntu is released (2011)
- Linux 3.0 is released (2011)
- Linux 4.0 is released (2015)
- Linux 5.0 is released (2019)