1. A History of linux Minix and Linux Anouncing Linux Version Time Line Distrobutions Refrences Tony Bemus MDLUG 9/10/2011

2. Minix and Linux Linux was devolped on a Minix OS Minix was created to demonstrate the book: Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (1987) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum Minix uses a Micro Kernel Linux uses a Monolithic Kernel

3. Anouncing Linux April 1991 Linus starts working on Linux August 25th 1991, Linus anounces Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. —Linus Torvalds

4. Version Time Line V 1.0 – March 14, 1994 - Only supported single- processor i386-based computer V 2.0 – June 9, 1996 - 41 releases- SMP support and more types of processors V 3.0 – July 22, 2011 - Torvalds announced that the big change was, "NOTHING. Absolutely nothing."

5. Distrobutions 1992 - MCC Interim, Yggdrasil, TAMU, SLS 1993 - Debian, LST, DLD/Delix, SLS -> Slackware 1994 - Redhat, Bogus, Slackware -> S.u.S.E. 1998 - uClinux, ROCK, Coyote 2000 - Smothwall, Ututo 2002 - Arch, United Linux, Tinfoil Hat 2003 - Yoper, Puppy, Gobolinux, GeeXboX, UHU

6. Refrences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Gldt1009.svg