| Guide | Although there is some controversy over the date of Linux's official birthday, even Linus Torvalds that there are four days in the year 1991 that can count as the birthday of Linux. But anyway, Linux is 25 years old, and here we show you the 25 major milestones that have happened over the past 25 years. |
This e-mail was dated August 25, 1991 Linus in the Minix Usenet newsgroup, which is usually considered the birthday of Linux. At that time Linus had no fame, and he said its new operating system was "just a hobby, not thinking like GNU for 386 (486) at that huge and professional. ”
1992: The First Battle of Linux
Andrew Tannenbaum is an operating system expert and the author of the famous Minix operating system, which is a Unix version for instructional purposes. Andrew claimed that "Linux is obsolete" and thus launched the first Linux operating system battle. In the ensuing controversy, Linus published a view that still seems correct, "if the GNU kernel (meaning Hurd, which is another project to try to build a free Unix-like operating system) was already good last spring, I would never have started my project: In fact, it wasn't finished, The estimate is never done. The big reason Linux wins is that it can be used now! ”
There are already some early Linux distributions, such as MCC and Yggdrasil Linux, but Patrick Volkerding's Slackware is one of the most successful, and until today it is still being updated and someone is using it.
The most popular community version of the Linux:debian Linux project was launched. Today, it is the upstream release of Mint, Ubuntu, and many popular Linux distributions.
Marc Ewing created Red Hat Linux, and then Bob Young bought Ewing's company and merged with his own company to reorganize to Red hat--, the most successful Linux company today.
Linux hosted its first business conference on Linux Expo. There are more and more conventions on Linux today, with more than 10 global or regional Linux conferences held in the United States alone each year.
The first major Linux desktop system KDE project started.
That same year, following Slackware and Red Hat Linux, SUSE, the European-based Linux company, released its first standalone Linux distribution.
The GNOME Desktop project starts. Today, it and KDE have become the most important two desktop systems on Linux.
Microsoft started to be hostile to Linux. Eric S. Raymond, an early Linux and open source leader, disclosed the Halloween memo, which showed Microsoft sees Linux as a major threat to start developing its anti-open-source strategy and its campaign against Linux. In less than 10 years, however, Microsoft has changed its intentions.
Corel has released its first mainstream Linux desktop. It did not succeed, but it pointed the way to other popular Linux desktop distributions, such as Ubuntu.
Linux competes with Windows NT for the first time on file servers, and Linux wins. The war between Linux and the Windows server operating system began.
In 2000, IBM announced that it would invest $1 billion in Linux in the next year. This has proven to be the smartest investment ever made by IBM.
After several delays, Linux 2.4 was released. With this release, Linux has become an operating system that can be compared to Solaris and other high-end server operating systems.
SCO, which consists of SCO Unix and Caldera Linux, began to turn over Linux, suing IBM and other companies, accusing Linux of copying Unix. Although the company eventually went bankrupt, the lawsuit bothered Linux for many years of business development.
Ubuntu created! Built on Debian Linux, Ubuntu has become a popular Linux desktop operating system and one of the most important Linux distributions in the cloud.
More than half of the world's fastest supercomputers run Linux. By the year 2016, only a handful of supercomputers had not run Linux.
Any suspicion of mainstream Linux has been shattered by Linus Torvalds appearing on the cover of Businessweek. Headlines? It's obviously Linux INC.
The Open Mobile Alliance, made up of Google and some hardware vendors, released Android. It has now become the most popular end-user operating system, running on more than 1 billion of smart phones.
The New York Stock Exchange, like many of the world's most famous stock exchanges, switched to Linux as the core operating system. Linux has not become a big business, but it has become a huge business.
IBM's Watson computer runs on Linux, winning the Jeopardy Intelligence Challenge and setting new standards for intelligent expert systems.
Google released its first chromebook:cr-48. It runs on a gentoo-linux-based ChromeOS. Sales to 2015,chromebook have surpassed the notebooks running Windows.
IT infrastructure moves from servers and data centers to the cloud, while the cloud runs on Linux. Even on Microsoft Azure, more than 1/3 of virtual machines were running on Linux in 2016.
Red Hat became the first open source company with annual revenue of $1 billion. And in 2016, it became the first Linux company to reach $2 billion.
Who says a leopard can't have no spots? Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, says Microsoft loves Linux. This company proves true love by supporting Linux and open source software in their cloud and in-house.
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