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TORVALD
Linus Benedit Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1969.
His grandfather, a mathematician and statistician, bought him a Comodore in 1980 and was the one who "hooked" Linus into the world of computers. -
GNU
Richard Stallman founded the GNU project, Two years later he created the "Free Software Foundation" and wrote the GNU General Public License to enable free software in the copyright system. -
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GNU development
GNU software was spreading very fast and soon a multitude of programs were written, so that by the early 1990s there was enough GNU software to make an operating system of its own, but the Kernel was missing. -
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First steps
1988, Torvalds entered university. The didactic, UNIX-based OS created by Andy Tannenbaum, Minix, began to gain importance. Linus joined the Minix user community. Andy made a mistake in his OS. It was too limited, he never thought to include Minix in the GNU project. His first mistake was to assign all his rights to Prentice Hall, which started charging $150 per license.
Linus changed this policy because the Minix system was ideal for students of OS, and its price was considerably high. -
First Linux versión
On October 5, 1991, Linus announced the first "Official" version of Linux, - version 0.02.
With this version Linus was able to run Bash (GNU Bourne Again Shell) and gcc (GNU C Compiler). -
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Optimization
The first version was compiled but could not be executed.
At this stage of development the terms support, documentation, distribution were not even thought of. After version 0.03, Linus jumped in numbering to 0.10, more programmers across the internet started working on the project and after revisions, Linus increased the version number to 0.95 (March 1992). By December 1993 the core system was at version 0.99 and version 1.0 arrived on March 14, 1994.