25 years of Linux in 5 minutes
Opensource.com (Red Hat)
Jeremy Garcia of LinuxQuestions.org and Bad Voltage (a podcast) delivers 25 years of Linux in five minutes: starting with Linux’s first steps as just a hobby for creator Linus Torvalds, to its staggering popularity today with 135,000 developers from more than 1,300 companies and 22 million lines of code . 1992: First GPL release of Linux; it was initially licensed under a custom license that had some commercial restrictions. 2005: Linux has some licensing issues, so Linus writes Git and moves kernel development to it (very popular today). 2011: 3.0 release of Linux: Linus Torvalds says there’s no change. 2016: Over 135,000 developers from more than 1,300 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since the adoption of Git; 22 million lines of code.
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