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The beginning
UNIX was originally an operating system developed at AT&T Bell Labs -
The GNU Project
Richard Stallman announced his intent to start coding the GNU Project in a Usenet message in September 1983 -
A hobby
Linux started out in 1991 as a hobby project by Linus Torvalds. He made the source freely available and others joined in to shape this fledgling operating system -
Debian
The Debian Project was first announced in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian 0.01 was released on September 15, 1993 -
The Red Hat
In 1993, Bob Young incorporated the ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sold Linux and Unix software accessories. In 1994, Marc Ewing created his own Linux distribution, which he named Red Hat Linux -
The Fedora project
The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued.Red Hat Enterprise Linux was to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to be a community distribution -
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is built on Debian's architecture and infrastructure, to provide Linux server, desktop, phone, tablet and TV operating systems. Ubuntu releases updated versions predictably every six months, and each release receives free support for nine months (eighteen months prior to 13.04)with security fixes, high-impact bug fixes and conservative, substantially beneficial low-risk bug fixes.The first release was in October 2004. -
OpenSuse
The initial stable release from the openSUSE Project was SUSE Linux 10.0, released on October 6, 2005. This was released as a freely downloadable ISO image and as a boxed retail package, with certain bundled software only included in the retail package. -
A mint!!
Linux Mint started in 2006 with a beta release of Linux Mint 1.0, code-named "Ada", based on Kubuntu. Following its release, Linux Mint 2.0 "Barbara" was the first version to use Ubuntu as its codebase. Linux Mint had few users from these early versions until the release of Linux Mint 3.0, "Cassandra. -
The Android
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White (headed design and interface development at WebTV) to develop, in Rubin's words, "smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences"
