Comments on: Who makes the different versions of Linux? http://www.linuxbuzz.net/2008/12/who-makes-the-different-versions-of-linux/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: The Master http://www.linuxbuzz.net/2008/12/who-makes-the-different-versions-of-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-210 The Master Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:23:44 +0000 http://www.linuxbuzz.net/2008/12/who-makes-the-different-versions-of-linux/#comment-210 'm a little curious, who makes the different versions of Linux? > Different companies make them. Bob Young and Mark Ewing made Red Hat/Fedora/RHEL, Ian Murdock made Debian, Lance Davis made CentOS, Mark Shuttleworth made Ubuntu, Dan Robbins made Gentoo. Linus Torvalds made the Linux Kernel. Whoever makes it obviously is very talented. But why would people just make an OS just for the heck of it? > Linus Torvald in the late 80s made it as a "free-time" side project in the late 80's. He and many others across the web kept adding it too and then Patrick Volkerding created Slackware from the one of the first "testing" distro SLS. Overtime it kept building up. Read up on Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Hacker Culture to understand what I am really talking about. How do they get their funding to keep providing a free OS? > Not totally sure. ‘m a little curious, who makes the different versions of Linux?

> Different companies make them. Bob Young and Mark Ewing made Red Hat/Fedora/RHEL, Ian Murdock made Debian, Lance Davis made CentOS, Mark Shuttleworth made Ubuntu, Dan Robbins made Gentoo. Linus Torvalds made the Linux Kernel.

Whoever makes it obviously is very talented. But why would people just make an OS just for the heck of it?

> Linus Torvald in the late 80s made it as a “free-time” side project in the late 80′s. He and many others across the web kept adding it too and then Patrick Volkerding created Slackware from the one of the first “testing” distro SLS. Overtime it kept building up. Read up on Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Hacker Culture to understand what I am really talking about.

How do they get their funding to keep providing a free OS?

> Not totally sure.

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