History of Linux

History of Linux  :


History of Linux began in 1991 with a personal project by a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, to create a new operating system kernel. Since then, the resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. It has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to its state in 2009 of over 370 megabytes of source under the GNU General Public License .

                           Since then, the resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991. 

The term Linux properly refers to just the operating system kernel itself. However, in popular parlance ‘Linux’ is used to refer to a complete Linux Distribution which includes GUI components and many other utilities, many of which are supplied by the GNU Project. Android, for example .

                        The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration: the underlying source code may be used, modified, and distributed—commercially or non-commercially—by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License. Typically Linux is packaged in a format known as a Linux distribution for desktop and server use. Some popular mainstream Linux distributions