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Linux History: Nguyen Tan Cam

Unix was developed in 1969 at Bell Labs as an operating system that was simple, elegant, written in C instead of assembly, and able to recycle code. In the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds created Linux, a freely available version of Unix for home PCs that had become powerful enough to run full Unix systems. Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and created GNU tools to develop a Unix-compatible operating system, while Professor Andy Tannenbaum created the Minix operating system, and in 1991 Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel building on Minix to create a free Unix-like system with GNU.

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Linux History: Nguyen Tan Cam

Unix was developed in 1969 at Bell Labs as an operating system that was simple, elegant, written in C instead of assembly, and able to recycle code. In the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds created Linux, a freely available version of Unix for home PCs that had become powerful enough to run full Unix systems. Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and created GNU tools to develop a Unix-compatible operating system, while Professor Andy Tannenbaum created the Minix operating system, and in 1991 Linus Torvalds developed the Linux kernel building on Minix to create a free Unix-like system with GNU.

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Linux History

Nguyen Tan Cam

Unix
In 1969, a team of developers in the Bell Labs laboratories started
working on a solution for the software problem, to address these
compatibility issues.
They developed a new operating system, which was:
Simple and elegant.
Written in the C programming language instead of in assembly code.
Able to recycle code.

The Bell Labs developers named their project "UNIX."

Linus and Linux


By the beginning of the 90s home PCs were finally powerful enough to
run a full blown UNIX.
Linus Torvalds, a young man studying computer science at the
university of Helsinki, thought it would be a good idea to have some
sort of freely available academic version of UNIX, and promptly
started to code

Brief History of GNU/Linux


1985 Free Software Foundation (FSF) founded by Richard Stallman.
Along with other programmers creates the tools needed to make a
UNIX compatible OS
1985 Professor Andy Tannenbaum creates a UNIX like operating
system based on System V Unix for the IBM PC & PC/AT computers. It
is called Minix.
1989 Richard Stallman releases GPL and GNU software but lacks a free
kernel.
1991 Building on the concepts in Minix, Linus Torvalds (Finnish college
student) develops Linux along with help from other users on the web.

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