History of Linux operating system

In 1969 Ken Thompson developed UNIX in bell laboratories. The UNIX operating system was developed basically using the c programming language.

Later the years passed on several operating systems are developed using the UNIX some of them are HP-UX, Apple computer’s A/UX, IBM’s AIX etc.,

In 1990’s Linus Torvalds, a graduate student from the University of Helsinki designed a kernel on 80386 Intel machine and gave this to OSF (Open Source Foundation).

From his name the kernel was named as Linux kernel. By collaborating this kernel with the GNUapplications a complete UNIX like os was developed and that is called Linux OS.

Linus' UNIX -> Linux

                                                            Linus Torvalds

The good competitors of Linux were windows, Solaris, IBM-AIX, HP-UX etc.