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  Version 1.0 of SuSE Linux released
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  Version 1.0 of SuSE Linux released
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  Linux kernel version 2.0 released
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  IBM CEO Louis Gerstner announces that the company will invest $1 billion in Linux development.
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  IBM CEO Louis Gerstner announces that the company will invest $1 billion in Linux development.
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  Amazon.com reveals in a SEC filing that switching to Linux has saved them over $20 million.
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  Linux distributors Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva sign an agreement to form UnitedLinux and jointly develop a Linux distribution for servers.
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  Linux distributors Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva sign an agreement to form UnitedLinux and jointly develop a Linux distribution for servers.
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  Walmart begins selling Microtel PCs through their online store with Lindows and Mandrake Linux pre-installed
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  The city of Munich, Germany announces that it's switching 14,000 PCs from Windows to Linux.
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  La Junta de Extremadura (Spain) announces that 80,000 computers in their schools are running a distribution called GNU/LinEx.
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  Linux kernel version 2.6 is released
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  Microsoft settles its trademark dispute with Lindows
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  First version of Ubuntu Linux released
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  During the Superbowl, IBM runs a commercial promoting Linux
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  Larry McVoy, creator of BitKeeper, discontinues support for the free BitKeeper
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  In strongly worded emails to the GNOME mailing list, Linus Torvalds reveals that he prefers KDE to GNOME
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  Linus Torvalds reveals that he doesn't like the anti-DRM provisions in the draft for version 3
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  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announces that the company may develop their own Linux distribution
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  Nicolas Negroponte displays the first working prototype of a $100 laptop computer running Linux and designed for children in the third world
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  Novell and Microsoft sign a controversial agreement in which Novell
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  Dell announces that it will pre-load Ubuntu Linux on selected desktop and laptop models of their computers.
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  Linux distributors Xandros and Linspire sign patent agreements with Microsoft