Another camp of the computer world, the world of Unix. But Unix itself was very expensive. Expensiv

In 1991, the Cold War came to an end, and peace was apparent horizons in the world of computers, there was a very bright future. With powerful hardware, an end to restrictions on computer. But still, something was missing ... and it was nothing but a profound loss within operating systems.
Dos, the empire was in personal computers. Bones operating system for $ 50,000 from a Seattle hacker by Bill Gates (Bill Gates) was purchased with a clever marketing strategy has crept into every corner of the world. PC users had no other choice. Apple Macs were better. However, the astronomical prices, making them out of reach for most people.
Another camp of the computer world, the world of Unix. But Unix itself was very expensive. Expensive enough that users of personal celio computers did not dare to approach it. Bell Labs Unix source code that was distributed to universities, were carefully protected from public disclosure. To solve this problem, the solution did not provide any software manufacturers.
This solution seemed to be of MINIX. This operating celio system from scratch by Andrew S.. Tanenbaum (Andrew S. Tanenbaum) Dutch professor was written to teach the internal operations of a real operating system. This system was designed to run on the Intel 8086 CPU, and will soon flood the market.
As an operating system, MINIX was not so good. But its main advantage celio was the availability of its source code. Everyone who books Tanenbaum operating systems would provide 12,000 lines of code written in C and assembly could get. For the first time, an aspiring programmer or hacker was able to read the source code of the operating system. What software vendors had guarded it. A very good writer, the Tanenbaum, Computer Science Geniuses make up the operating system was to create a discussion. College students around the world by reading books and source code, the system was running on the computer, they understand.
In 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Sophomore, Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland and was a self-taught hacker. The Finnish celio 21-year-old would love to revamp the system limits pushed. But the main thing was that there was an operating system that will meet the needs of professionals. MINIX was good but it was just an operating system and more as an educational tool for the students to be a powerful tool for use in serious.
At this time, the programmers around the world by the GNU project (GNU) by Richard Stallman (Richard Stallman) was started, were stimulated. The goal of this movement to provide free software, and yet the quality. Stallman its policy of famous Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, created the emacs editor began in the mid and late 70s. By the early '80s, most elite programmers MIT AI lab attract commercial celio software companies had signed confidentiality agreements with them. But Stallman had a different vision. He believed that, unlike other products, the software should be free from the restrictions of copy and modify it so as to produce better and efficient day-to-day applications.
With his famous declaration in 1983, began the GNU project. He began to move his philosophy to produce and offer to pay for software. Is the name GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix. But to achieve his dream to create a free operating system, they first needed to establish the necessary tools for the job.
So in 1984 he began writing and GNU C Compiler celio GCC could be called. Amazing tool for freelance programmers. He was alone with his legendary wizard creation tool to be superior to all commercial developers to create tools that all groups were analyzed. GCC is one of the most efficient and robust compilers have been developed so far.
By 1991, the GNU Project had created many tools, celio but there was still no operating system. MINIX was not even licensed. Work on GNU kernel HURD was going to be called, but that was not to be used for the next few years. This time Linus was too long ... August 25, 1991 the date of MINIX newsgroup by Linus sent to:
I am developing a free operating system just as a hobby and not as big and professional like GNU for 386 and 486 m. This started in April and is currently being prepared. I would like to make comments about things they like or do not MINIX, I gather. Because my OS resembles it around. Like structure similar to the file system and other things ... I bash the GCC version 1.08 and version 1.40 and it seems to have taken the works. Within a few months I'm just testing something and would like to know what features most users need? I welcome any suggestions. But I can not promise I'll implement them all. Linus
As the letter suggests, Torvalds himself would not believe that His creation is so great that such a change would create the world. Linux version 0.01 was released in mid-September celio 1991 and was put on the internet. celio Torvalds took a lot of passion around the creature. Downloaded code