A history of GNU and Linux This is a somewhat bowlderized history; please check the specifics before basing any research papers on it. Unix is born Unix came to be back in 1969. and has evolved a great deal since then. It was reimplemented in C during 1972-1974, and is therefore the first source-portable operating system. Currently there are a wide variety of implementations of it, with varying degrees of compatibility, from a variety of vendors …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…Movements are currently afoot to create integrated, easy-to-use desktop GUI environments for nontechnical users, and the distributions have come a long way in ease-of-installation. It is still not an OS that just anyone should install. However as developers, we both understand and demand more of our computers, so many of us may find that the increased power of a GNU/Linux system will help us do our work faster, more accurately, and with less drudgery.