28 makahiki aku nei, ua hoʻolaha ʻo Linus Torvalds ma ka comp.os.minix newsgroup ua hana ʻo ia i kahi prototype hana o kahi ʻōnaehana Linux hou. Hoʻokomo ʻia ka ʻōnaehana i ka ported bash 1.08 a me ka gcc 1.40, ka mea i ʻae ʻia e manaʻo ʻia he pono ponoʻī.
Ua hana ʻia ʻo Linux ma ke ʻano he pane i ka MINIX, ʻaʻole i ʻae ka laikini i ke kaiāulu e hoʻololi maʻalahi i nā hanana (ma ka manawa like, ua hoʻonohonoho ʻia ʻo MINIX o ia mau makahiki ma ke ʻano he hoʻonaʻauao a ua kaupalena ʻia i nā hiki).
Ua hoʻolālā ʻo Linus i ka inoa ʻo Freax ("free", "freak" a me X (Unix)), akā ʻo Ari Lemmke, nāna i hāʻawi i ke kōkua iā Linus i ka paʻi ʻana ma ke kau ʻana i ka waihona OS ma ke kikowaena, ua kapa ʻia ka papa kuhikuhi me ia "linux" .
ʻO ka laikini kumu "ʻaʻole kūʻai aku," akā ma hope o ka hoʻolohe ʻana i ke kaiāulu i ulu a puni ka papahana, ua ʻae ʻo Linus e hoʻohana iā GPLv2.
Source: linux.org.ru