7 Linux landmarks

1. April 1991 - Linus Torvalds began working on his own operating system kernel.
2. May 1992 - The first distribution of Linux, Softlanding Linux, is shipped.
3. July 1993 - Slackware Linux, the first commercial Linux is launched.
4. March 1994 - Linus Torvalds releases kernel versioon 1.0
5. November 1998 - Microsoft lawyers present a box of Red Hat Linux at its antitust lawsuit, as evidence that Windows did not represent a monopoly on the OS market
6. October 2004 - Canonical release Ubuntu 4.1 (Warty Warthog) with a six-month release cycle
7. November 2007 - The Open Handset Alliance announces a preview version and SDK of Android