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On 25 August 1991, 21 years old student of Helsinki University sent a mail to a newsgroup on Usenet.
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Linux Kernel was released under GPL
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Slackware Linux is the oldest Linux development
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That guy then went on to demand royalties from Linux distributors. Linus Torvalds won the court battle three years later.
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First Linux specific tradeshow and conference series was launched by people at North Carolina State University
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Linus gets bit by a penguin and chooses it as linux mascot
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GNOME is one of the most successful open source projects. It has been crucial to the spread of desktop Linux
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Another crucial part of desktop Linux, KDE project saw its first stable release in 1998
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They went to Microsoft’s offices to return their unused licenses of Windows
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Linus refused the offer and continued to work on Linux
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The first commercial Linux for Business IT was released in the year 2002
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This new Linux distribution marketed itself as Linux for human being.
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Microsoft and the owner of SUSE form an agreement to cooperate
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