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Linux Timeline By LWN and LJ

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-my-navel dept.

A reader wrote to us with the link that Linux Journal has put together a Linux Timeline. Kinda nice to walk down memory lane - and think about what was on peoples' mind at each major point. Of course, if I see the original letter Linus wrote at the beginning one more time...*grin*

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  1. unix timeline by dizco · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been posted before, but here's a nifty history-of-unix timeline

    Also the book 'a quarter century of unix' is a great read, if a bit dated.

    --sean

  2. Who coined "Open Source"? by ke4roh · · Score: 5, Informative
    February 1998
    Eric Raymond and friends come up with the term "open source". They apply for trademark status and put up the opensource.org web site.
    I thought that looked suspiciously recent for the term "open source", so, in a few minutes of Google groups searching, the earliest reference I found was October 1989, in a post by Chris McDonald from White Sands Missile Range, but he was not talking specifically about computer program source code - just information.

    In December 1990, folks were discussing "open source" software, particularly BSD. Thad Florian quoted Kent Paul Dolan using the term, then used it himself.

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