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Presenting The First Twenty years Of Linux – Gallery

 
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LinuxCon North America 2011 is celebrating 20 years of achievements in Vancouver,Canada.

As a part of that celebration, they put together a gallery of items donated by the community representing those twenty years and the accomplishments of Linux.

Below is a gallery which is built around a timeline of the history of Linux:
 
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See larger images of each section of the timeline:

It continues with boxes of many versions of Linux through the years, stickers, devices, and more.
 
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Devices based on Linux; Whiskey bottle was presented to Linus Torvalds by Greg Kroah–Hartman in celebration of Linux kernel 3.0 and signed by community members at LinuxCon Japan 2011:
 
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Want a Linux watch?
 
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From left to right, these are:
The computer Ted Ts’o, the first North American kernel developer, used to write his first Linux code in 1991
A 1999 Intel Dot.station Linux-powered web applicance
Dell netbook that was sold preloaded with Ubuntu 11.04
 
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I’ll be posting larger versions of these pictures and more from Linuxcon on the opensource.com Facebook page, so if you’d like to see more, follow us there.
 
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