This is my report in History of Linux.

1. History
of Linux OS

2. LINUX
• Linux is named after Linus Torvalds
(pronounced "LYNNus", hence "LYNN-
ucks")
• He wrote the first Linux kernel in 1991
• At the time, he was a Computer Science
undergraduate student at the University of
Helsinki, Finland, and wanted a hobby
project which he intended to release as a
free OS

3. Linus Benedict Torvalds

4. LINUX (cont.)
• Elements of GNU became essential parts of
the system, such as gcc (the GNU C
compiler).
• In October 1991,Richard Stallman expresses
interest in having the Free Software
Foundation distribute a GNU system with the
Linux Kernel.
• Linux is released under the GPL, the Free
Software Foundation's General Public
License

5. KERNEL
• The kernel is a program that constitutes
the central core of a computer operating
system. It has complete control over
everything that occurs in the system.
• A kernel can be contrasted with a shell
(such as Unix-like operating systems),
which is the outermost part of an operating
system and a program that interacts with
user commands.

6. The kernel itself does not interact directly
with the user, but rather interacts with the
shell and other programs as well as with the
hardware devices on the system, including
the processor (also called the central
processing unit or CPU), memory and disk
drives.

7. 1992
• Version 0.95 of the Linux kernel released.
First version to be able to support X-
Window.
• A Linux distribution called Softlanding
Linux System (SLS) is released
• Software und System Entwicklung (SuSE)
founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
Distributes a German version of SLS with
corresponding manuals

8. Softlanding Linux System
(SLS)

9. Software und System-
Entwicklung (S.U.S.E)

10. 1993
• Version 1.0 of Slackware released by
Patrick Volkerding. It is based on the SLS
distribution.

11. Slackware

13. 1994
• Linux Kernel version 1.0 released.
• Marc Erwing releases the first version of
Red Hat Linux
• Version 1.0 of SuSE Linux released. It is
based on SLS

14. RED HAT LINUX

16. SuSE

18. 1995
•Bob Young partners with Marc Erwing and
forms Red Hat Software
1996
•Linux Kernel version 2.0 released.
•Linus Torvalds suggests that a “slightly
overweight penguin” would be the best
mascot for Linux.

19. TUX

20. • Kool Desktop Environment (KDE) project
announced.

21. Kool Desktop Environment

23. 1999
• Linux Kernel version 2.2 released.
• GNOME 1.0 desktop released.

24. GNOME

26. 2001
•Linux kernel version 2.4 released.
2004
•First version of Ubuntu Linux released,
version 4.10

27. Ubuntu Linux version
4.10

29. 2007
• May Dell announces that it will pre-load
Ubuntu Linux on selected desktop and
laptop models of their computers.