Linux History

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• 1983 September 27 - GNU announced by Richard Stallman (emacs, gcc).
• 1985 - FSF - Free Software Foundation.
• 1991 September 17 Linus Torvalds releases v0.01 of the Linux kernel.
• 1991-1992 - Early distributions history
• 1994-1995 Main stream distributions appear.
• 2008 October 22 - First Android based mobile phone released.