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August 25 2016 is the 25th birthday of our fav OS
I got on-board about 2001 with Mandrake 9
Hi...
Although I didn't immediately become a user, I was introduced by a relative to Red Hat around the same time frame, in 2000 and 2001. My first experience of working with Linux was with Red Hat 7.2.
Regards...
Last edited by ardvark71; 08-25-2016 at 03:59 AM.
Reason: Added link.
1991 to now is 25 years or did you mean something else?
Regards...
Based on Wikipedia, Linus did a bit earlier work on the code. Linux birth is considered based on its first release (opensource)?
Wiki:
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The history of Linux began in 1991 with the commencement of a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. Since then, the resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to the 4.2.3 version in 2015 with more than 18 million lines of source code under the GNU General Public License v2.[1](p7)[2][3]
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