A History of Linux
Date Submitted: 01/02/2003 07:04:32
A young college student named Linus Torvalds started Linux in 1991. He started this as a hobby based on Minix, a small version of Unix. His goal was to expand on the abilities of Minix and allow for a system that exceeded its capabilities. In 1991 he released version 0.2, the first version of the Linux kernel. He continued work on his project steadily until the release of version 1.0 in 1994. As of January 2001 Linux had reached version 2.4 and
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