How Long Has Linux Been Around?
Contents Tux the Penguin, Mascot of Linux Developer Community Linus Torvalds Initial Release September 17, 1991 Marketing Target Cloud Computing, Embedded...
| Tux the penguin, mascot of Linux | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Community Linus Torvalds |
| Initial release | September 17, 1991 |
| Marketing target | Cloud computing, embedded devices, mainframe computers, mobile devices, personal computers, servers, supercomputers |
| Available in | Multilingual |
When did Linux begin?
Linux, computer operating system created in the early 1990s by Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). While still a student at the University of Helsinki, Torvalds started developing Linux to create a system similar to MINIX, a UNIX operating system.
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How old is Linux?
Linux is 25 years old today – so is it still the future of computing? Linux is probably the only operating system that all of us use every day, but only some of us actually know it. Its creator, Linus Torvalds, first posted about his work on this new, free OS back in 1991 but said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big”.
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