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How Did Linus Torvalds Begin His Original Project In Linux?

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In 1991 Linus Torvalds began a project known as the Linux Kernel while attending the University of Helsinki. He had written the program specifically for the hardware he was using at the time and then he had also wanted it to be independent of the operating system. There are some reasons known of why Linus Torvalds had started his original project in Linux. Two of these such reasons are in 1983 the GNU project was born, and its creator was Richard Stallman. He had the goal in mind of creating a free UNIX like operating system. Later Stallman had also created the GNU General Public License. Linus had stated that these had a lack of being widely adopted, and that he wanted to create free kernel that would be available quickly. If the GNU Hurd or any of the other kernels had been available, then there is a possibility that Torvalds never would have written his own in the first place. …show more content…

Development was initiated on MINIX and it used the GNU C Compiler, and until this very day is the same compiler that is mainly used. He started out mainly developing device drivers and hard drive access. By December of that same year he had created a version of Linux that he referred to as 0.01. In the year of 1991 on the day of October 5th Torvalds sent a posting to the newsgroup comp.os.minix. This post announced the release of a new version labeled as 0.02. This version was intended to be very basic and one that still needed MINIX to operate. There was an incredible attraction and interest in this and from here on out the kernel was very rapidy improved by Torvalds and many a number in

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