give me a based history of linux

>>60974818
Install Gentoo

>>60974818
It was plagiarized by from Minix which Linus Torvalds rewrote in his own word. Then he name it after himself because his is a wanker.

>>60974818
Stallman started the GNU project and all the work then linux basically rewrote minix and they were combined and now linus gets all the credit also slackware and debian happened pretty early on.

>>60974818
Linux wouldn't have even happened if Linus knew about BSD, which is superior in every aspect.

>>60974818
Some time during the late 60s and early 70s, some dudes at Bell Labs make an OS called UNIX, which becomes a form of standard of how operating systems should look like.

Some time during the late 70s, a guy called Richard Stallman working at MIT has so much trouble with his printer that he decides to just reverse engineer the bloody driver and fix the bug. However, the lab at MIT buys a newer printer and now the driver isn't so easily reverse engineered. There are even efforts in making reverse engineering harder and the printer company claims intellectual property. This tips off Stallman, as he was already borderline mentally unstable, and he goes on a long mission to create free software.

Some time during the late 80s, Stallman had created a compiler (GCC) and a userland (GNU) which everybody ran on their UNIX-based OSes. Even people who used Sun OS, replaced the default userland with GNU, because it was so freakin' awesome. However, Stallman, being an autistic and mentally unstable cunt, was too busy making sure that GCC was unextendable so that companies wouldn't come along and make proprietary extensions to it. All his time and effort was directed at pointless shit like this, so he didn't really have time to implement a kernel for his free operating system.

Some time during the 90s, a guy called Linus Torvalds wants an operating system for is i386. MINIX, which was a commonly UNIX-like OS used by many, had a license which was unsuitable for Linus' needs. He therefore wrote his own kernel and used the GNU userland.

Linux became more popular, and the creator of MINIX, Andrew Tanenbaum, was partly butthurt that Linux was more popular than MINIX, and partly butthurt about all the flakk microkernel design got from people who liked the monolithic design of Linux. Andrew and Linus had a major flamewar on some mailing list. This gave Linux even more fame, as Andrew was a famous computer scientist.

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>>60974818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c

>>60974931
He did know about BSD. BSD was having legal problems at the time. He even said if HURD or BSD had been out he wouldn't have wrote linux.

>>60974964
Some time during the early 2000s, Steve Ballmer got seriously asspained by Linux, and launched a Microsoft FUD campaign against Linux. You can look up the infamous Halloween letters and the "total cost of ownership" campaign for more details. Anyway, the campaign backlashed, and Linux gained more popularity.

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>>60974987
I heard something about Ritchie and bell labs. What was going on between them?

>>60975058
Dennis Ritchie worked for Bell Labs, what's your point?

Linux is a shitty clone of minix which is basically retarded unix to teach babies how to program. It's pretty bad and archaic.

>>60975069
Minix is a dead piece of shit

>>60975065
Like Dennis tried to give Unix for free or something and bell labs did some shit there? Maybe I messed up memories in head.

>>60975144
>Like Dennis tried to give Unix for free
No. You're probably mixing something up.