What is Linux? A History Lesson

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IN THE BEGINNING, there was dinosaurs. And then there was Linus Torvalds. But before Linus, there was Unix, A family of OS’s created in the 1970s at Bell Labs. In the year 1991 a computer science student at the university of Helsinki was using an operating system called MINIX. Minix was a unix-like operating system created in 1982 by Andrew Tanenbaum and was designed to teach students about the principles and concepts of operating systems. Linus decided he wanted to take MINIX and make it his own, a new Operating system. The goal if his new system would be to be open to everyone and customizable, so he got to work developing the kernel for his new OS. What’s a kernel? The kernel in a computer is responsible for managing system resources and facilitating communication between hardware and software. The first versions of Linux were not operating systems at all, but just a kernel. It wouldn’t be until later, when the GNU project got involved, that Linux based operating systems would come to life. As Linus developed his kernel he decided to announce his project on usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix where he asked the community to give feedback and contribute. This was the birth of the Linux kernel as an open-source community driven endeavor.
Before we continue, I make videos to teach people about various IT related things, and talk about IT career advice and my experiences in the industry. Consider clicking like and subscribing. Back to the video. Also during the time period something called the GNU project was happening. Started by Richard Stallman, The GNU project was a project that wanted to develop a complete operating system composed of entirely free software. Stallman didn’t like the restrictiveness of proprietary software and licensing. The project created the GCC GNU compiler, the text editor Emacs, and other tools called the GNU core utilities, but is was missing a kernel. In 1992, Linus released v0,12 of the Linux kernel which included a file system, text editor, and support for the GNU C Compiler (GCC) from the GNU project.
16. The combo of the Linux kernel with the GNU software formed the first GNU/Linux operating system. As time went on, communities began to take the linux kernel and modify it to create the various Linux distributions we see today. Slackware was created in 1993, Debian in 1993, and Red Hat Linux in 1994. Its hard to say exactly how many Linux based operating systems exist today, but Thanks to this series of events Linux found its wat into everything from phones, servers, TVs, refrigerators, payment kiosk, and many of the things we interact with today. Its even used for super computers.

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Great video, although I feel it was cut short(?), it made me curious about linux