Linus Torvalds:

In August 1991, when Linus Torvalds announced the first ever Linux operating system, the world welcomed it with a standing ovation. Such was its computing power, that it took the whole technology space to greater heights. Torvalds originally created a Linux kernel to work on an 80386 processor PC, which was running on the Minix operating system and a GNU, C compiler. However, the fact that ‘a kernel never can make a OS’ gave Torvalds secondary thoughts. What happened next was that, the GNU project gathered and developed all the necessary tools including the shell, compilers, and library tools and released them under its General Public License in 1992. Torvalds integrated all the components with his kernel and the Linux was officially born. In 1996, Torvalds added a Penguin as the mascot, and the rest is just history.

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