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History of Linux

Table of Contents

1. What is Linux?

1.1. It is an Operating System

1.2. One of the most popular OS today

1.3. Linux is everywhere - servers, Android, thousands of distribution

2. 1991: Linus Torvalds posted annouced that he is working on a free OS just as a hobby

3. 1992: Few people started working with him

4. 1993: Slackware and Debian are releases

5. 1994: Linux version 1.0 release for IBM compatible PC

6. 1995: Linux version 1.2 released

7. 1996: Linux version 2.0 released with multi processor support

7.1. This mean it can be used on the servers

7.2. Development on 2.1 started

8. 1999: Version 2.2 released

9. 2001: Version 2.4 released

9.1. USB

9.2. Bluetooth

9.3. ext3: Keep log of uncommitted changes to the file system. Useful in case of power failure.

10. 2002: Linus started using Bitkeeper

11. 2003: version 2.6, O(1) scheduler. No major version released for the next 8 years.

12. 2005: Linus developed Git in few months. 2.6.12 launched using Git.

13. 2006: LTS 2.6.16 released

14. 2007: Android released using Linux kernel 2.6.27

15. 2008: ext4 added. Can support large volume.

16. 2011: Linux kernel 3.0 released. Just a rename to move from 2.6.x

17. 2012:

17.1. Support for ARM added and i386 removed.

17.2. Rpi launched, ARM based board

18. 2015: Version 4.0 released, live patching - no need to reboot

19. 2017: Version 4.12, support for USB Type C

20. 2018: Version 4.18

21. Reference