gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
Based on UNIX-like systems??”Clones of virtually all the other user-level components
of a UNIX system had been created. Those and other utilities and applications were built
to run on UNIX or other UNIX-like systems.
Linux has become one of the most popular culminations of the open source software movement.
But the traditions of sharing code and building communities that made Linux possible started
years before Linux was born. You could argue that it began in a comfortable think tank known as
Bell Laboratories.
Exploring Linux History
Some histories of Linux begin with this message posted by Linus Torvalds to the comp.os.minix
newsgroup on August 25, 1991:
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I??™m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won??™t be big and professional like gnu)
for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I??™d
like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things) . . .
Any suggestions are welcome, but I won??™t promise I??™ll implement them :-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
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Linux First Steps Part I
PS. Yes??”it??™s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
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