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An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

Timeline of Events

1983

9.27.1983

Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

1990

5.22.1990

Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.

1992

7.14.1992

386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.

1993

7.16.1993

The Slackware operating system is first released.

1995

8.24.1995

Computer software developer Microsoft releases its Windows 95 operating system.