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Linux Turns 30: The Community Marks Three Decades
On August 25, 2021 Linux's community marked 30 years since Torvalds' announcement while distinguishing the post from later source releases.
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Linux 5.0 Released - a Version Bump, Not a Milestone
Linux 5.0 shipped on March 3, 2019: a normal development release whose major-number change deliberately did not signal a rewrite or ABI break.
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The Linux Foundation Forms from a Merger of Two Rival Consortiums
On January 22, 2007 OSDL and the Free Standards Group merged as the Linux Foundation, combining development support with standards work.
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Linus Torvalds Creates Git in 10 Days After a Licensing Dispute
After the kernel lost free BitKeeper access in 2005, Torvalds built Git into a usable distributed source manager in roughly ten days.
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Linux Kernel 1.0.0 Ships, Marking It Production-Ready
Linux 1.0 arrived on March 14, 1994 as the first stable-number kernel, targeting 386/486 PCs with TCP/IP and a growing driver/filesystem base.
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Linux 6.1 Merges Initial Rust Support
Released December 11, 2022, Linux 6.1 became the first kernel version to officially accept Rust as a second language for kernel development, alongside C.
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Apple Announces the Mac's Transition to Apple Silicon
At WWDC on June 22, 2020, Tim Cook announced a two-year plan to move every Mac from Intel processors to Apple's own chips.
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Mac OS X 10.0 'Cheetah' Ships to the Public
Released March 24, 2001 at $129, Mac OS X 10.0 brought Apple's NeXT-derived, Unix-based operating system to consumers for the first time.
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OS X El Capitan Introduces System Integrity Protection
Released September 30, 2015, OS X 10.11 shipped with SIP enabled by default - restricting even the root user from modifying protected system files.
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Snow Leopard Ships as a Refinement Release, Dropping PowerPC Entirely
Released August 28, 2009, Snow Leopard was the first Mac OS X built exclusively for Intel Macs - a deliberate stability release, not a new-features showcase.
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