The Linux kernel is the core of the Linux family of operating systems, started by the Finnish student Linus Torvalds, who was then at the University of Helsinki. He had announced a hobby project, a free operating system kernel for PC-class machines, earlier in the same year, and this release was the first version made available to others. He combined it with tools from the GNU Project to form a complete free operating system, and he released the code under the GNU General Public License. Thousands of developers and companies now contribute to it. Linux runs most of the world's servers and supercomputers, and the Android system for mobile phones is built on it, making it among the most widely used pieces of software in history.
Before and after
- from 19 August 1991 to 21 August 19911991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
- from 25 August 1991 to 18 November 1991Battle of Vukovar
- from 2 September 1991 to 1 January 2023Republic of Artsakh
- from 14 September 1991 to 23 November 1991Battle of the Barracks
- 17 September 1991Release of Linux kernel
- 17 September 1991Release of Linux
- 19 September 1991Otzi the Iceman is found
- October 1991Release of The Unicode Standard
- from 29 October 1991 to 3 January 1992Operation Orkan 91
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The era
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