A Short History Of Linux Operating System and how it Became so Popular

If you are a supporter of all things IT you’d be forgiven for thinking that this thing called Linux has just looked out of nowhere.

Infact, you might be shocked to discover that Linux has been around in it’s current form since the early 90’s but the details go back much longer.

Late 1960’s – Unix is established and released in 1970’s.  It is widely implemented in business and academic circles.

1983 – a programmer Richard Stallman produces the GNU Project.  It is an attempt at creating a Unix type operating system but collected of wholly free software.

1987 – An additional programmer Andrew S. Tanenbaum creates Minix, a Unix like operating system for Academic use.

1991 – a Finnish student  Linus Torvalds creates a non commercial version of Minix and calls it Linux.  The Linu is from Linus and the x is from the ‘ix’ part of Minix.

The convenience is history.

For more info on Linux history squared out this Wikipedia article.