in what year was linux 1.0 released?

Question

and what is he current release of linux ? please specifify ehivh distribution of linux you are referring to.

Answer 1

Hi, Linux 1.0 I am not sure but I think its development started in the year 1991. Most current distributions of Linux r using 2.6.22 such as Ubuntu or OpenSuse. The latest stable kernel to be released though is kernel 2.6.23 and pretty soon we might see an upgrade to that kernel. I hope I helped.
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Answer 2

If you mean the Linux kernel, then it was first released to the public on 17 September 1991, for the Intel x86 PC architecture (was a 0.x version). The kernel was augmented with system utilities and libraries from the GNU project to create a usable operating system, which later led to an alternate term, GNU/Linux.

According to http://www.kernel.org , the 1.0 version was released on March 1994.

All the distros use the same kernel and the same GNU utilities, but of course have different versioning number (i.e. Fedora 8, SuSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10, etc.), so to see how updated is a particular distro you have to check the version of the programs it includes (i.e. kernel version, desktop environment version, web browser, etc.).

At the moment the current release of the Linux kernel is 2.6.23.1 released on October 2007.

The latest version of the most famous distribution:
Ubuntu ==> 7.10
OpenSuSE ==> 10.3
Fedora ==> 8
Mandriva ==> 2008
Debian ==> 4.0
Slackware ==> 12
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Answer 3

When people say "Linux" they are referring to an operating system based on the Linux kernel. The first version of the Linux kernel was released to the public September 17th, 1991. One of the most popular operating systems based on the Linux kernel is Ubuntu. The newest version of Ubuntu is Ubuntu 7.10.

The newest version of some others are:
Damn Small Linux 3.4.5
Mandriva 2008
Fedora 8

Answer 4

This is a very interesting question which can best be answered on the links below :

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux/

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003740/history.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

I am a great fan of Linux and have migrated after many years of using Windows. I currently have the bang up to date Ubuntu 7.10

If you would like to know more about Ubuntu 7.10, follow this link :

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Thanks for an interesting question.