A Brief History of Linux 

Just wow! Brief history of Linux in a flash. Great job Gary :)

I have items to recommend for your timeline; The time MS execs called it a cancer, and the time MS joined the Linux Foundation (OK maybe three.. how about the time MS added Linux to Windows?)

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds

Since you mentioned Git, how about explaining Git in one of your nice videos? Thanks

I'm a simple man,I see a ''Gary Explains'' video I click like!

After 18 years of "wanting to" - and didn't for various reasons - I'm FINALLY starting to use Linux. Thanks to various guide videos at RU-vid, I learned how to download a Linux Mint ISO and install it on a 5-year-old Asus eee netbook. So much had happened over the years since 2000 when I first wanted to. Thanks to all those passionate and helpful people involved in open source and Linux, it's now very easy for newcomers to at least give this OS a try. I'm pleasantly surprised by how the programmers and developers have handled issues that would have discouraged newbies from continuing with using Linux. Critical issues like hardware drivers, internet connection etc. which have become like Windows and OSX - plug-and-play. Then the availability of tons of good programs and utilities, with most of these being free of charge. Right now Linux is a more-than-capable replacement for the Windows 10 laptop I've been using. With the exception of a few programs that I simply must use (work-related) like Microsoft Publisher. I'm also having trouble handling those tar.gz files. But other than these, using Linux as my main system is making more sense.

Please do a video on software installation, ppa's, software suites, etc. on Linux. I believe that many people would stand to benefit between the differences on direct downloads, package managers, etc.

Great job could you make a video about RISC-V or ARM vs RISC-V

Didn't know that about Git. Really interesting video!

Reexamine those first Distros. In 92/93, most of us were using archie/gopher and uucp from our SCO or SunOS systems to pull the code from funet.fi. The first "distros" were SLS, Yggdrasil, TAMU, and TSX-11 with Yggdrasil being the first commercially packaged kit (booklet, boot floppies, and CD) in Dec 1992 (kernel 0.98pl1). DebIan (named after Ian Murdoch and his wife, Debbie) started pushing beta builds in September of 1993. Patrick's Slackware was based on the SLS collection and became available via FTP in late 1993, as well.

Great history lesson! I believe that Linux development is just getting started. There's currently a lot of exciting stuff going on. I believe that Linux will soon catch up with Windows and MacOS in terms of daily desktop and gaming usage. Also hardware manufacturer driver support for Linux has grown a lot lately. Even Microsoft sees how powerful Linux can be when given proper support and to be honest I think they've become a bit scared of being overrun. Thus they've added things like WSL with the help of Ubuntu and joined the Linux foundation etc... 😜

I remember downloading slackware on multiple floppy disks. Running x-windows was painful. You had to know all kinds of config details for your graphics card and monitor. Good times.

I use Linux and I think this video is very informative. Thanks Gary.

Very nice one Sir. Loved it♥️💯

Thanks Gary. Appreciate your excellent & informative videos.

Another great video!

Quite informative, albeit highly condensed :) kudos.

Thank you Gary, excellent work. Favourite milestones... I'm not entirely sure. The birth of Mate, which was just restarting dev + maintenance on the gnome2 system, when the gnomes moved to gnome3. I'm not sure, I've been using Linux now for about 23 years, so... The birth of Debian and the release of the first Debian distro, that was a major. Start of Canonical & Ubuntu. Start of Mint.... Generally I think you've listed the biggest & most important ones.

thanks again for sharing your humble knowledge

Thank you for sharing history. Can you please make video on Windows Subsystem for Linux which was released with windows 10 anniversary update?

4:31 I recall something called the “Big Kernel Lock” (BKL). Presumably this was pre-2.2.

Hey, Merci Gary! Doing great :-)

“Android Pie 9.0 - 4.9.84 or newer” Why my Pixel XL running Pie is still on version 3.18.100?

Maybe next you can do a history of the Windows KERNEL and leave out everything else.

I use Linux and I live it! It's the best

So is there a place where we can the complete video?

Great video!❤️ Can you make a video about RISC-V?

This video brings me back to my Sun Ultra 60 on Linux 2.

Nice summary! However, I would like to add that Android is not based exactly on the Linux kernel but, on a modified version of it.

I used Slackware until about 2008. Good times... Editor note: started on 2.2.x kernels.

2:52 DEC sent an Alpha to Linus in 1994, with a request that he port Linux onto it. That was only the second architecture that it ran on. So Linux went 64-bit and became portable at the same time!

Gary. You have several Linux videos. How about a video on which Linux OS is best for different use models (scenarios)? I am personally interested in running Linux as my main OS then running everything in a virtual machine, VMWare or Virtual Box. Any insights or additional reference materials would be quite useful. I think many people will be interested because Microsoft is becoming a poorer OS choice with each release.

Very good evening professor!!!!!!! Library of knowledge!!!!

Always deep respect for Linus and you

Please make videos about ARM related stuff, like the big.LITTLE.

I love Linux. Wearing a 'Linux Powered' T-Shirt.

9:20 I have at least five of those Android devices so that's one person using five. I'm sure there's others like that as well. It would be nice if each device was a person.

Please do a video about different linuxes. I want to try linux but am confused.

Why at a certain point linux dropped i386 compatibility going for i486?

very informative!

*GARY!* *Good afternoon, professor!*

Backdrop wrong penguin. Linus was impressed with the little fairy penguins on Philip Island, Victoria, Australia. The origins of Tux.

What's a "spinlock?"

Very interesting 👍

3:28 And your server OSes, and some of the proprietary applications that ran on them, were licensed based on the number of processor sockets! It might have been Intel that persuaded Microsoft not to count multiple CPU cores within a chip as multiple CPUs for licensing purposes. Otherwise Windows might have looked even worse in comparison to Linux than it already was.

*GARY!!!* *GOOD AFTERNOON PROFESSOR!*

You left out when Richard Stallman gets butthurt cuz no one calls it "GNU/Linux".

Is there any contribution made by Gentoo​ to Linux?

Do a video on RISC-V ;)

@10:16 Yeah, the Mediatek Helio X20 uses big-little.

Interesting. It would good to see what that version could do and not do.

You left out the part where mayonnaise, peanut butter and bananas taste good

What presentation software you use in this video??

Today I learned: Linus Torvalds wrote git... This man is a legend

Gary probably won't see this, but; could you please do a video on building custom GUIs/Desktop Environments for Linux? I'm trying to build one and I'm relatively new to Linux and C.

Linux distros are very light,just that not all apps are available☹️

i recently discovered android and linux were "merged" in 3.3 thanks to the android mainlining project, yet most android phones use outdated kernels.........what happened?

Nice video #subscribed

Linus made Git, too? Damn, nice.

Thank u for this great video

Would you explain Ray tracing .. in the "light" of the new Nvidia card :D

As this time, Linux Kernel 5.16 has been released

Dude I want a Red Hat hat

I think to be fair with GNU community, this video should call "history of Linux kernel" or it should mention all GNU effort to have a full GNU/Linux operational system.

You forgot to mention that Linus Torvalds never intended to release Linux. He was happy with BSD, but BSD was caught up in lawsuit with AT&T (a copyright infringement lawsuit) and that halted development for about four years, and he needed an operating system that was compatible with the i386, so he released Linux 1.0 in 1994. So thanks to our draconian laws, Linux became mainstream and BSD didn't.

9:16 Correction, you mean thare are 2 billion devices using the linux kernel, not 2 billion people. people? no where near that number(probably). i have 3 devices(smart phones) using the linux kernel now you're saying i'm 3 individual people.

You got a Red hat on a Red hat ..... 🎩 magical 👌

he got bitten by a penguin in Australia and thats how he chose the mascot for linux :3

I love linux.

Nice, like your video, however Linux is NOT an operating system it's a KERNEL. it's really GNU/Linux, my first distro was Slackware. I don't mind your video being long, it's educational and entertaining.

I have to reread it and make sure its not linus

Pepsi of course app that's the best thing that ever happened man type c support keep it up bro nerd for life

Bought my first PC in 2009 with Windows XP. i knew nothing. Ran windows vista, 7, 8.1, 10 upto 2016. I still knew nothing. Installed Ubuntu 16 in my laptop and now i am a software Engineer.😊😊

Uses android Points to moon It was Linux this whole time

Had to put Linux(Mint 19 XFCE) back on my wife's laptop. I got sick of using Windows 7 on it.

Can I say that Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, CentOS, openSuse tumbleweed my exes? Because I'm in a relationship with Arch though 😂

Living Encyclopedia...!!

27 years of development and NVIDIA still sucks at supporting Linux.

Dem. I'm as old as Linux..

In before the INTERJECTION

Linux is not "very dominant" is has a minute market share with consumers. It does better with servers but is till a tiny fraction of the server market. [Correction, I overstated this, Linux is not a tiny fraction of the server market, 1/3 is not tiny. Yet it is not dominant, it is not even 1/2.]

the name is unix. you all gnu/linux usurer are stealing.