Linux timeline

Date	Event
1984
January 1984	Richard Stallman quits his job at MIT and starts working on the GNU Project.
1985
Month unknown	Free Software Foundation, an organization for creating and promoting free software, is founded by Richard Stallman.
March 1985	The GNU manifesto, a statement by Richard Stallman advocating the cause of free software movement, is published in the March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal
1991
August 25 1991	Linus conceives the idea of Linux and announces the project in a Usenet Post
September 1991	Version 0.01 is released on the Net
1992
January 1992	First Linux Newsgroup: alt.os.linux founded in the UseNet
April 1992	Ari Lemmke starts the popular Linux newsgroup comp.os.linux in the UseNet
November 1992	Adam Richter announces the release of the first Linux Distribution from his company: Yggdrasil
1993
June 1993	Slackware, the famous Linux distribution is released by Peter Volkerding
August 1993	Matt Welsh releases Linux Installation and getting started: version 1
1994
March 1994	Linux kernel version 1.0 is released