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%SECTION0{name=LddKernelHistory}% History of Linux

   * 21 year old Linus Torvalds starts "educational" project in 1991

   * Tanenbaum's Minix served as a Model, but no code from it was used.

   * Torvalds chose the *GPL* (GNU Public License)

   * first release of source code to [[http://groups.google.de/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/76536d1fb451ac60/b5fb8c0380d0edae][mailing list]] in August 1991

   * many people helped, first self hosting release (0.11) in December 1991
 
   * [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_(Kernel)#Erscheinungstermine][Version history at Wikipedia]]

   * Amusing: [[http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/mhonarc-files/obsolete/][Linux is obsolete]] Tanenbaum - Torvalds flamewar

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