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A Guide Through The History of Unix & Linux: Everything You Need To Know

By Roy Schestowitz Created 05/09/2020 - 12:49am Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 5th of September 2020 12:49:13 AM Filed under OS [1] GNU [2] Linux [3]

Wall became interested by the movement that was picking up steam, in part due to Richard Stallman and the GNU Project, and saw what the power of releasing source code into the wild for free could provide to a project. Therefore, Wall released Perl into the Unix world, where it quickly blew up and soon became an essential tool in every Unix administrator, developer, or user?s toolbox.

As Perl was developed out in the open with hundreds of developers from all around the world, it grew from a domain specific language into a general purpose programming language. Even today, Perl is one of the first software packages installed in nearly every Unix-like system in existence due to the powerful flexibility and ease of use it provides in bootstrapping large software projects (like the Unix kernel itself).

In the shadows of the Unix Wars, along with the rise of the (spearheaded by Richard Stallman with the GNU Project and Larry Wall with Perl), a young computer science graduate student from the University of Helinski would forever alter the course of history after releasing the source code for a free Unix-like kernel???partially inspired by the MINIX system he had learned and used in school???into the free software world in September 1991. His name was , and his kernel???Linux.

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