In What Year Was the Source Code for the Linux Kernel Released?
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When was the Linux kernel invented?

Chronology.

1991: The Linux kernel is publicly announced on 25 August by the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds.

1992: The Linux kernel is relicensed under the GNU GPL.

The first Linux distributions are created.

Where did UNIX originate?

The history of UNIX starts back in 1969, when Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others started working on the “little-used PDP-7 in a corner” at Bell Labs and what was to become UNIX.

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