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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

History Of Linux

History Of Linux

In 1969, Four programmer Ken ThompsonDennis Ritchie, Rudd Canady & Doug McElroy made a program in Bell labs( AT & T ) which does not have any name in year 1969.
Brian Kernighan checked that program & found it is very good software for client & networking purpose.
He gave the name Unix to this program on 1st January 1970 (epoch time).
First Operating System that time that program was written in Assembly language.
In 1972, a programmer Dennis Ritchie started converting this program in C language. (Also called founder of C language).
In 1973 UNIX was launched in C language 
1980‐ Berkeley Software Development (a part of research program of Berkeley University) Launches open BSD (a small program written in a single floppy).
In 1981‐ Launched MS‐DOS 1.0
In 1984‐ UNIX open source In 1985‐ First Graphical Based OS‐ Win 2.0.
In 1991, a student at university of Helsinki in finland named Linus Torvalds  who had been using minix, a non free unix like system, began writing his own kernel. He started by developing device drivers and hard drive access, and by September had a basic design that he called version 0.01 kernel. which is called Linux, was afterwards combined with GNU system to produce a complete free operating system.
In 1994‐ Red Hat Company (collection of Linux Sets) came into existence 96.8 % servers of Linux till 2009.




DEVELOPER OF LINUX KERNEL (LINUS BENEDICT TORVALDS)

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