A brief history of Linux

Before we talk about the history of Linux, it's a good idea to start with the events that led to its development. You might have seen pictures of old computers that were as big as a car or a house. It's hard to imagine how cumbersome it would be to handle a system this big now that we live in a world of handheld devices and thin clients. It's not just the massive size; the different operating systems that used to run on these devices made things more complicated. Every piece of software was designed to serve a single purpose and was impossible to run on another computer. In short, we had a compatibility issue. On top of these problems, the cost of buying these computers was huge. Purchasing a computer was not a dream that came true for normal people.

Unix

The aforementioned shortcomings led to the development of a project called Unix, which was started in the mid-1970s by a group of developers at Bell Laboratories. The main intention of...