When Was the First Version of Linux Released?
Contents Tux the Penguin, Mascot of Linux Developer Community Linus Torvalds Source Model Open Source Initial Release September 17, 1991 Marketing Target Cloud...
| Tux the penguin, mascot of Linux | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Community Linus Torvalds |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | September 17, 1991 |
| Marketing target | Cloud computing, embedded devices, mainframe computers, mobile devices, personal computers, servers, supercomputers |
What was the first version of Linux?
On October 5, 1991, Linus announced the first “official” version of Linux, version 0.02. At this point, Linus was able to run bash (the GNU Bourne Again Shell) and gcc (the GNU C compiler), but not much else was working. Again, this was intended as a hacker’s system.
When was the first Linux operating system launched?
While still a student at the University of Helsinki, Torvalds started developing Linux to create a system similar to MINIX, a UNIX operating system. In 1991 he released version 0.02; Version 1.0 of the Linux kernel, the core of the operating system, was released in 1994.
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