Computing Timelines: Timeline of Programming Languages, Timeline of Computing, Timeline of Computing 1950-1979

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Timeline of programming languages, Timeline of computing, Timeline of computing 1950-1979, Timeline of computing hardware 2400 BC-1949, Timeline of computing 1990-1999, Timeline of computing 1980-1989, Linux kernel, Timeline of web browsers, Timeline of Apple Inc. products, Timeline of quantum computing, Timeline of binary prefixes, Timeline of artificial intelligence, Timeline of x86 DOS operating systems, Timeline of file sharing, Timeline of computer security hacker history, Timeline of Macintosh models, Timeline of operating systems, History of blogging, Timeline of Internet conflicts, Timeline of cryptography, Timeline of computer animation in film and television, Timeline of computing 2000-2009, Timeline of popular Internet services, Timeline of algorithms, Timeline of OpenBSD, Timeline of SCO-Linux controversies, Timeline of Apple II family, Timeline of Microsoft Windows, Timeline of open-source software, Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset, Timeline of hypertext technology. Excerpt: The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software. The Linux kernel is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) (plus some firmware images with various non-free licenses), and is developed by contributors worldwide. Day-to-day development discussions take place on the Linux kernel mailing list. The Linux kernel was initially conceived and created by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds in 1991. Linux rapidly accumulated developers and users who adapted code from other free software projects for use with the new operating system. The Linux kernel has received contributions from thousands of programmers. Many Linux distributions have been released based upon the Linux kernel. I...

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First published May 28, 2010

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