oct 5, 1991 - First realease of linux kernel 0.02.[26]

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On October 5, 1991, Linus announced the first “official” version of Linux, version 0.02. At this point, Linus was able to run bash (the GNU Bourne Again Shell) and gcc (the GNU C compiler), but not much else was working.

It was conceived and created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds[10] for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU operating system,

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