A GNU/Linux Timeline

• 1984 -- Stallman starts GNU and the FSF.
• Apr 1991 -- Linus (a Finnish student) posts about a 'project' he's working on:
  • just a hobby, won't be big and professional.... free of any minix code, ... it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable...and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks.
• Oct 1991 -- Linux Ver 0.02 Released
• Dec 1993 -- 100,000 estimated users
• Mar 1994 -- Linux 1.0 Released (500,000)
• June 1996 -- Linux 2.0 Released (3,500,000)
• Mar 1998 -- 7,500,000 estimated users
• Jan 2000 -- ????

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