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Birth of the Linux operating system and now has 20 years, and in these 20 years, Linux from the sport in the school developed to become a strong force in the operating system. We have summarized from 20 years Linux 11 important milestones in the development of:
In April 1991 , Linus Torvalds in the dormitories of the University of Helsinki started writing your own operating system kernel, most of the time just to see if he can do that. When he was in early development, called Minix a clone of Unix, he sent a message to a newsgroup a Minix says, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, not large) 386 (486) clone. “
It now appears that Linus Torvalds was the evaluation of his works are wrong, also thanks to be wrong.
May 1992 : Torvalds after a year of work, Softlanding Linux System Linux release of the first full public release, with TCP/IP support and x Windows.
July 1993 :–Slackware the birth of the first commercial Linux distributions Linux, which is currently in the continued development of the oldest Linux distributions.
March 1994 : Linus Torvalds released Linux 1, the kernel version contains 176,250 lines of code
April 1995 : Linux have their own trade Conference, created by Donnie Barnes, North Carolina State University Linux Expo, and later continued to work in Red Hat company.
November 1998 : in a federal antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft’s lawyers provided a box of Red Hat Linux as evidence to prove that Windows did not monopolize the operating system market.
November 1999 : started SourceForge VA Systems Web site, the site of Linux and other open source software hosting platform.
October 2004 : Canonical released Ubuntu 4.1, the release is characterized by a focus on user experience.
January 2007 : the number of leading mobile technology companies, including Motorola, NEC, Samsung, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, and Vodafone to launch Linux-based Smartphones.
November 2007 : Open Handset Alliance Union including Google, Intel, Sony, HTC, Motorola, and 78 other company released Android preview, released after a week the Android SDK
October 2008 : first Android phone business t-mobile G1 launch, Android has become a strong competitor Apple iOS.