29-years in the making, the Linux kernel just accepted its millionth commit. The greatest open-source project of all time has come a long way from its "hobby" beginnings.

Affected Systems ===== All Linux versions with kernels 2.2.x and x < 19 (i.e., also the recently release RedHat 2.2.17 kernel is vulnerable). The picture is unclear for kernel versions 2.4.x: the ...

All this Linux history happening amid the dot com boom - incredible. ... Version 2.0, for instance, had features such as SMP support and better memory management, ...

In the source code of version 0.01 of Linux, the name ‘Freax’ was still used in the makefile. Only later was the name Linux used. Thus the name actually not planned at all became generally ...

That was the first time all of the TOP500 machines were running Linux. Before that IBM AIX , a Unix variant, was hanging on for dear life low on the list. Also: US supercomputer knocks out Chinese ...

But thanks to the latest release -- version 0.7 -- Docker is now supported on all major Linux distributions, including Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo, and Arch Linux.

A pivotal moment in the Linux kernel came with version 2.4, released on 4 January. Version 2.4 contained support for USB, PC Cards, ISA Plug and Play, and went on to add Bluetooth, RAID and EXT3.