Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of Linux


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This post is a basic timeline of Linux operating system. There are 17 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • 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)