10 Substantial Events in Linux History
Here are a few substantial events in Linux history:
1991 - Linus Torvalds posts his first message about his free operating system resembling MINIX. He mentions that the operating system will probably never support anything other than AT-hard drives.
1992 - Andrew Tanenbaum, a computer scientist and author of the MINIX kernel, wrote a post in response to Linus’ post in 1991. He said "Linux is Obselete" which sparked the debate about the structure of Linux. Hundreds of people were on-board with Linux at Linus’ campus; then thousands were developing and perfecting the code … soon to become hundreds of thousands.
1993 - The compressed kernel source was no around 800K and Linux had passed multiple revisions (15+)
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