Linux: Exploring its History, Evolution, and Adoption

Episode 03   Published March 26, 2024 21 minute watch

Summary

Linux is a kernel plus a user space, and it grew out of Unix, which Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie formally released in 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs. When AT&T closed off Unix's source code in 1984, Linus Torvalds, then a 22-year-old computer science student, set out to build a free alternative and released the first Linux kernel in 1991. The same frustration with managing thousands of contributors led him to build Git years later. Host Landon Miles traces that lineage and shows how far Linux reaches beyond servers into Chromebooks, Android phones, embedded systems, AI training, and film. He also gives a practical on-ramp for trying it yourself.