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Linux Timeline

Posted in Introduction by tux | 1 Comment

Linux.org presented one of the most detailed important events in the history of the Linux operating system development

1983
September    Richard M. Stallman announces the GNU Project, an attempt at creating a completely free operating system.

1984
January    Work begins on the GNU operating system

1985
October    Free Software Foundation established as a non-profit organization to promote the development of Free Software. Sponsors the GNU Project.

1987
January    Computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum publishes the textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation which includes a copy of a teaching version of Unix called Minix.
December    Larry Wall releases version 1.0 of Perl

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Slackware 13.0 released

Posted in News and Updates by tux | No Comments

One of my favorite linux distribution, Slackware, had released their version 13.0.

One of the significant change is the release of the official 64-bit.  Their is also a completely reworked on the  collection of X packages, major upgrades to the desktop environments for KDE and Xfce.

Full Official announcement in:

http://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php

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