By David Hayward from Linux Format Issue 163 November 22nd 2012
In Depth A nostalgic look back at Linux, its distros and its colourful history
...........revelling in the glorious animated desktops, taking pleasure in the ease-of-use the GUI grants and enjoying the fact that most of our hardware works out of the box, do we ever wonder how on Earth our favourite operating system got to this point?Do we consider and appreciate the amount of time and effort that a long list of developers have taken in reaching this Zen-like state of man and OS? Most likely, not.
A quick reminisce of Linux distros long gone made us think about the history of this wonderful OS, and its journey over the last couple of decades. When was it born? How did it evolve? What distros stand out in history as the pivotal turning point that changed a humble bedroom project into the desktop OS we have today? And which poor distros fell by the wayside as failed, crumpled heaps?
Let's, then, take a step back in time as we embark upon a chronological look at Linux, and see how history has shaped the mighty penguin.
(covers 1991 - 2012)
http://bit.ly/Y5Hirb
