●●● ●●●● istory of UNIX/Linux ●●●●● ●●●● ●●●●● 1991 BSD Networking Release 2, led to development of 386BSD 1991 Linus torvalds released linuxversion 0.2 1993 USL was acquired by novell. Novell gave the UNIX trademark to X/Open. Novell add NetWare support to System V 1993 Slackware, the oldest linux distribution was first released. Debian project was established 1994 Linux kernel version 1.0 released. Red Hat and SUSE published version 1.0 of their Linux distributions 1995 Linux was ported to dec alpha and to sun SParc 1996 Linux Kernel 2.0 was released. It supported multi-CPU 1998 Major companies like IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support to Linux. The Graphical Environment KDE began development 1999 The Graphical Environment GNOME began development 2003 Linux kernel 2.6 released on 18 December, 2003 2004 XFree86 team split up and joined the existing X Windows standards body to form the x Org Foundation 2005 The project Open SUsE began a free distribution from Novell's community The OpenOffice. org project introduced version 2.0History of UNIX/Linux 1991 BSD Networking Release 2, led to development of 386BSD 1991 Linus Torvalds released Linux version 0.2 1993 USL was acquired by Novell. Novell gave the UNIX trademark to X/Open. Novell add NetWare support to System V 1993 Slackware, the oldest linux distribution was first released. Debian project was established. 1994 Linux kernel version 1.0 released. RedHat and SUSE published version 1.0 of their Linux distributions 1995 Linux was ported to DEC alpha and to Sun SPARC 1996 Linux Kernel 2.0 was released. It supported multi-CPU. 1998 Major companies like IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support to Linux. The Graphical Environment KDE began development. 1999 The Graphical Environment GNOME began development. 2003 Linux kernel 2.6 released on 18 December, 2003. 2004 XFree86 team split up and joined the existing X Windows standards body to form the X Org Foundation. 2005 The project OpenSUSE began a free distribution from Novell's community. The OpenOffice.orgproject introduced version 2.0