20th Anniversary of Linux Gallery Tour

hi we're here at Linux conon celebrating 20 years of Linux we invite you to take a short tour with us on a special Gallery we've put together with more than 120 items donated from the community so our Gallery starts in 1991 on a special timeline that we produced that takes us through the story of Linux from 1991 to 2011 1991 is when Lena's first posted his Infamous message telling the world that he was creating an operating system lenus was generous enough to donate his personal programming books that he used in 1991 and 1992 as he got started on Linux slackware was the first widely adopted distribution that came along just a year or two after that Deb and very shortly after that red hat supposed to reach a billion dollars in Revenue this year uh was founded um 1995 96 lenus actually acquired the trademark uh in 1997 Linux Journal reported on that Linux Journal actually donated their original issue from 1994 about 10 years into Linux it really started to experience Commercial Success Red Hat went public it was the eighth largest first day gain in Wall Street history IBM committed a billion dollars to Linux and started its Peace Love Linux campaign and um Google's co-founder Sergey Bren in an interview said that his Google was running on 6,000 servers in 2001 2002 lenus decided to write an autobiography titled just for fun we actually have the book here and did a really famous Charlie Rose interview to to promote that book and to share the story of Linux with more people Lena started to reach a new level of celebrity Linux started to reach a new level of ubiquity about that time in 2003 2004 IBM launched um its I'm just a kid Linux campaign very famous commercial during that same time auntu was founded by Mark shorth and a few years later Linux was featured on the cover of Business Week really heralding the the business success that the operating system was having in 20056 Google acquired Android which eventually led to being the most successful operating system on the market here are some very special items especially the whiskey bottle that was just recently presented to lenus by Colonel developer GRE cro Hartman at Linux con Japan to celebrate Linux kernel 3.0 on display on our main wall are the winners of our annual linux.com t-shirt design contest and the winner you'll see is in the middle elevated with the balloon it's called Flying Penguin and we have a number of just for fun item celebrating Linux Red Hat donated to the proverbial Red Hat IBM Don the wristwatch that was introduced at CIT in 2001 one of the original consumer devices I would say that were based on Linux in here we have all 14 Ubuntu software releases donated by canonical Patrick Vine donated a number of slackware software items including uh slackware 1.2.0 on floppy discs Texas Instruments donated both a Pandora board and the first TI omat based oo serus motherboard a very special note we have the original purchase disorder for red Hat's first sale of Red Hat Linux IBM's John bouvet donated the Peace Love Linux campaign flag and mon Vista donated an existing piece that they had that they were happy to share with us for the gallery for their Hard Hat Linux release this showcase is a Linux library and includes a number of books and Publications from over the years including red hot Summit Free Press from a number of their Red House Summits Bob Young's book under the radar this oldie but goodie was donated to us by Linux colel developer Ted Cho uh who wrote his first Linux code using this machine the story behind it was I had just graduated from MIT the year before uh and while I was MIT as a student I had uh uh lots of nice computers uh easily available for me to use and I decided I want to have my own Unix like system uh available for me to use from my apartment and so when I found out about uh Linux and the fact that you could install it on a PC uh with floppy discs I ran out and I got this generic white box machine this is a 386 uh machine 40 MHz with all of 16 MBT of memory uh which was a lot of memory back then over the years I've uh put together and added extra disc drives and uh tape backup uh but I use this machine for probably a good four or 5 years uh up until about 95 or so when I finally started upgrading to uh something bigger and better Intel donated this 1999 Intel do station Linux powered web Appliance it's got a a phone receiver on the monitor it's definitely unique and Canal was kind enough to send us a down net book pre-loaded with a bon 21104 Linux operating system definitely receives its fair share of fan mail but this is one of our favorites written by 11-year-old Nick Mallet who is a young and budding Lin user who wrote the Linux Foundation expressing his gratitude towards to the community and to everybody who works on Linux for creating such a great operating system that he can use now and into the future it's really neat to look back at all the uh past you know 20 years of all this stuff and uh uh bringing up some very old memories as well so the overall Gallery uh it really just blows me away to actually see the timeline and the the evolution of the history of Linux you understand after you've been a while in the industry how much things have progressed but actually just seeing it graphically is is a pretty amazing reminder of just how much this community has accomplished in 20 years which seems like a long time but is actually a very short time I think it's really neat I'm glad somebody put together a museum like this I have some of these things and I have a continual fight with my wife about whether I should keep them still like what do you need floppy discs for we don't have any floppy drives and I'm glad there are people who are keeping them thank you so much for joining us on this special tour looking at Linux over the last 20 years we look forward to the next 20 years and contributing and collaborating with you the community for more information learn more about Linux please visit linux.com or Linux foundation.org

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