Timeline of Linux History
1984
January 1984: Richard Stallman quits his job at MIT and starts working on the GNU Project.
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1985
Month unknown: Free Software Foundation, an organization for creating and promoting free software, is founded by Richard Stallman.
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March 1985: The GNU manifesto, a statement by Richard Stallman advocating the cause of free software movement, is published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal
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1991
August 25 1991: Linus conceives the idea of Linux and announces the project in a Usenet Post
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September 1991: Version 0.01 is released on the Net
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1992
January 1992: First Linux Newsgroup: alt.os.linux founded in the UseNet
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April 1992: Ari Lemmke starts the popular Linux newsgroup comp.os.linux in the UseNet
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November 1992: Adam Richter announces the release of the first Linux Distribution from his company: Yggdrasil
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1993:
June 1993: Slackware, the famous Linux distribution is released by Peter Volkerding
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August 1993: Matt Welsh releases Linux Installation and getting started: version 1
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1994:
March 1994: Linux kernel version 1.0 is released
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