A History of Linux Damian Gordon.

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1 A History of Linux Damian Gordon

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4 Desktop market share (8/2/2016)
1.47%

5 Prehistory of Linux The Unix operating system was developed by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1969 and first released in 1970.

6 Prehistory of Linux In 1977 the University of California, Berkeley released a free UNIX-like system, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). But BSD contained Unix code, so AT&T sued.

7 Prehistory of Linux In 1983, Richard Stallman started the GNU project to create a free UNIX-like operating system. Hurd (the GNU kernel) failed to attract enough developers, leaving GNU incomplete.

8 Prehistory of Linux In 1987 Andrew S. Tanenbaum released MINIX, a Unix-like system intended for academic use. While source code for the system was available, modification and redistribution were restricted.

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10 Linus Benedict Torvalds
Born: December 28, 1969 (age 45) Born in Helsinki, Finland Chief developer on the Linux kernel Created the revision control system Git 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award

11 Linux Torvalds made the code of Linux freely available to everyone on the internet, and therefore lots of people created their own versions of Linux.

12 Linux Linux is therefore an example of Open-source software, in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software is often developed in a public, collaborative manner.

13 Timeline of Linux 1992 V0.01 1996 V2 1994 V1 2011 V3 2015 V4

14 Timeline of Linux 1992 V0.01 1993 Slackware 1994 SUSE 1996 V2 2000
Knoppix 2002 Gentoo 2004 Ubuntu 2006 Alpine 2008 Musix 2011 Mageia 1993 Debian 1994 V1 1995 Red Hat 2002 Arch 2003 Fedora 2004 CentOS 2006 Oracle 2008 Android 2011 V3 2015 V4

15 Timeline of Linux

16 Timeline of Linux

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18 Kernel

19 Kernel Shell

20 Shell Kernel

21 Commands Shell Kernel Hardware

22 V0.01 Not a mature product at the time
September 1991 V0.01 Not a mature product at the time Minix-like kernel for i386(+) based AT-machines  Efficiently using the 386 chip, use of system calls rather than message passing, a fully multi-threaded FS, minimal task switching, and visible interrupts

23 March 1994 V1.0 Allowed Multi-programming – multiple programs run at the same time. Virtual Memory management supported Linux is highly backwards compatible, so if a program worked in any version of Linux it will work on all versions of Linux.

24 June 1996 V2.0 Restructured memory management and improvements in task scheduling Improved SCSI support  Increased networking protocols. Filesystem support for NCP (Novell) and SMB (MS Lan Manager, etc.) network filesystems added.

25 V3.0 Better handling of virtualization systems
July 2011 V3.0 Better handling of virtualization systems Btrfs data scrubbing and automatic defragmentation Not a major change in kernel concept, but started a new version number to mark the 20th anniversary of Linux

26 V4.0 A *fairly* small release, some VM clean-ups
12th April 2015 V4.0 A *fairly* small release, some VM clean-ups The unification of the PROTNONE and NUMA handling for page tables. Some people advocated the 4.0 version number, to eventually see because "that was the version of Linux SkyNet used for the T-800 Terminator".

27 15th January, 2017 V4.10 A small release by Linus Torvalds, on device drivers, some architecture work, some file systems fixes and some network issues.

28 V4.0 Version Original release date Current Version Support Model 4.0 12 April 2015 4.0.9 Maintained from April 2015 to July 2015 4.1 22 June 2015 4.1.38 Maintained from July 2015 to September 2017 4.2 30 August 2015 4.2.8 Maintained from August 2015 to December 2015 4.3 1 November 2015 4.3.6 Maintained from November 2015 to February 2016 4.4 10 January 2016 4.4.44 Maintained from January 2016 to February 2018 4.5 13 March 2016 4.5.7 Maintained from March 2016 to June 2016

29 V4.0 Version Original release date Current Version Support Model 4.6 15 May 2016 4.6.7 Maintained from May 2016 to August 2016 4.7 24 July 2016 4.7.10 Maintained from July 2016 to October 2016 4.8 25 September 2016 4.8.17 Maintained from September 2016 to January 2017 4.9 11 December 2016 4.9.5 Latest mainline release 4.10 15 January 2017 4.10-rc4 Latest unstable release

30 Design Goals of Linux The three design goals of Linux are: Modularity
Simplicity Portability

31 Design Goals of Linux Linux supports: Multiple processes
Multiple platforms Multiple users Inter-process communications Terminal management Peripheral devices Buffer cache Demand paging memory management Dynamic and Shared libraries Disk partitions Network protocol (TCP/IP and others)