History of Linux

Posted by tuxchick on Jan 27, 2008 9:50 AM EDT
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; By Ragib Hasan
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In The Beginning:

It was 1991, and the ruthless agonies of the cold war were gradually coming to an end. There was an air of peace and tranquility that prevailed in the horizon. In the field of computing, a great future seemed to be in the offing, as powerful hardware pushed the limits of the computers beyond what anyone expected.

But still, something was missing.

And it was the none other than the Operating Systems, where a great void seemed to have appeared.

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