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Frustrated with the current state of UNIX and lack of licensing outside the academic realm for MINIX, Linus Torvalds began development of his own Unix-like OS while at the University of Helinski.
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In the Usenet user group "copo.os.minix", Linus publicly announced his OS in progress. The post is archived here
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Linus uploaded the development files to and FTP server at the Helsinki University of Technology, and at the insistence of co-worker and server manager Ari Lemmke, consented to the name "Linux", despite previously dismissing it as "too egotistical".
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Over 100 developers begin working on the linux kernel. Slackware, the oldest linux distribution is released and the Debian project (one of the most popular distributions today) was started.
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Tux, a penguin was chosen to be the mascot after Linus was bitten by one in Australia.
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version 2.0 includes a complete re-write of the kernel that allows for supporting multiple computers and is more modular. Linux Jounal Article
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GNOME, one of the most popular user interfaces for linux today, begins development.
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Linux 2.6, a major milestone that is still in used today in some distrubutions and devices
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THe Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Lab merged to form the Linux Foundation.
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Android, the AOSP, including Google Android and others, acheive 75% market share in the phone area. Android is based heavily on Linux.
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Ubuntu is one of the most popular Distributions, bsed off of Debian.
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The current version of LInux
