A small, tucked away news item from IDG caught my eye this morning.  It was one of those “On this day…” lists that most people ignore, but the word Linux seemed to jump out at me.  It turns out that the first version of the Linux kernel (0.02) was released to the public on this day in 1991!

I did some research, as this had piqued my curiosity….

http://www.linux.org had nothing specific on this – even in their section on the “Timeline” of the Linux OS.  Even Wikipedia – usually a great source of information for me – was unable to help!

I eventually uncovered a post in another blog that talks about the release in some detail.  You can read that at http://kerneltrap.org/node/14037.