Makore makumi maviri nemasere apfuura, Linus Torvalds akazivisa pane comp.os.minix newsgroup kuti akange agadzira inoshanda prototype yeLinux nyowani yekushandisa system. Iyo sisitimu yaisanganisira ported bash 28 uye gcc 1.08, iyo yakabvumira kuti ionekwe seyakazvimiririra.
Linux yakagadzirwa semhinduro kuMINIX, rezinesi rayo risina kubvumira nharaunda kuchinjanisa zviri nyore zvifambiso (panguva imwe cheteyo, MINIX yemakore iwayo yakaiswa seyedzidzo uye yaive yakaganhurirwa mukugona).
Linus pakutanga akaronga kutumidza mwana wake wepfungwa Freax ("yemahara", "freak" uye X (Unix)), asi Ari Lemmke, uyo akapa Linus rubatsiro mukutsikisa nekuisa iyo OS archive pane server, akatumidza dhairekitori nayo "linux" .
Rezinesi rekutanga "raive risiri rekutengesa," asi mushure mekuteerera kunharaunda yakakurira chirongwa ichi, Linus akabvuma kushandisa GPLv2.
Source: linux.org.ru