1. History Hey there, beginner! So you’ve decided to explore the world of Linux? That’s awesome! It’s going to be a fun and exciting journey, and I’m here to help you along the way. Let’s start with a little bit of history.
Back in 1969, two guys named Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs created an operating system called UNIX. Later, they rewrote it in a programming language called C, which made it easier to use on different types of computers. UNIX became very popular.
Years later, another person named Richard Stallman began working on a project called GNU (which stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”). He also created a special license called the GNU General Public License (GPL) to make software free for everyone to use and share. He tried to make a GNU kernel (called Hurd), but it never got finished.
Now, what’s a kernel? Think of it like the brain of the operating system—it helps the computer's hardware and software work together. It's super important!
Around the same time, other UNIX-like systems (like BSD and MINIX) were also being developed. But they didn’t have one complete, working kernel.
Then in 1991, a student named Linus Torvalds started creating something new: the Linux kernel. That’s the core of what we now call Linux!
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1. History
Hey there, beginner! So you’ve decided to explore the world of Linux? That’s awesome! It’s going to be a fun and exciting journey, and I’m here to help you along the way. Let’s start with a little bit of history.
Back in 1969, two guys named Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie from Bell Labs created an operating system called UNIX. Later, they rewrote it in a programming language called C, which made it easier to use on different types of computers. UNIX became very popular.
Years later, another person named Richard Stallman began working on a project called GNU (which stands for “GNU’s Not UNIX”). He also created a special license called the GNU General Public License (GPL) to make software free for everyone to use and share. He tried to make a GNU kernel (called Hurd), but it never got finished.
Now, what’s a kernel? Think of it like the brain of the operating system—it helps the computer's hardware and software work together. It's super important!
Around the same time, other UNIX-like systems (like BSD and MINIX) were also being developed. But they didn’t have one complete, working kernel.
Then in 1991, a student named Linus Torvalds started creating something new: the Linux kernel. That’s the core of what we now call Linux!
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