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Whylinux.jpg (JPEG Image, 1680 × 1050 pixels) - Scaled (63%) Gnome-Library. AisleRiot Manual [more versions, languages, or options...] AisleRiot is a collection of over 80 card games programmed in GNOME's scripting language, Scheme. GNOME Sudoku [more versions, languages, or options...] Sudoku is an application for playing the popular sudoku logic puzzle game, in which one must fill a 9 by 9 square with the correct digits. Iagno [more versions, languages, or options...] Iagno is the two player strategy game of Othello, which is also known as Reversi and is similar to Go. Lights Off [more versions, languages, or options...] Lights Off is a puzzle game, where the objective is to turn off all of the tiles on the board. Quadrapassel [more versions, languages, or options...] Quadrapassel is GNOME's version of Tetris, the classic game of interlocking four-piece blocks.

Swell Foop Manual [more versions, languages, or options...] Configuration Editor Manual [more versions, languages, or options...] Disk Usage Analyzer [more versions, languages, or options...] Index. History of Linux. The History of Linux began in 1991 with the commencement of a personal project by a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, to create a new free operating system kernel. Since then, the resulting Linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to the 3.10 version in 2013 with more than 16 million lines of source code under the GNU General Public License.[1] Events leading to creation[edit] Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Another free operating system project, initially released in 1977, was the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

This was developed by UC Berkeley from the 6th edition of Unix from AT&T. Since BSD contained Unix code that AT&T owned, AT&T filed a lawsuit (USL v. In 1985, Intel released the 80386, the first x86 microprocessor with 32-bit instruction set and MMU with paging.[5] In 1986, Maurice J. Naming[edit] Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants. An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux. The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts, Jr.