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This page covers the history of Operating System Development (OSDev) as it applies to amateur, educational and smaller operating systems. Other pages cover different aspects of the history of computer operating systems. A general history of mainstream OSes can be found on [[Wikipedia:History_of_operating_systems|Wikipedia]]. A more detailed timeline and hierarchy of UNIX and similar OSes can be found at [http://www.levenez.com/unix/ the UNIX history page].
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* '''Aug 2000''': The [http://www.osdev.org http://www.osdev.org] is created as a place to contain os development information.
* '''Oct 18 2006''': The two largest os development forums, Mega-Tokyo.com and OSDev.org, are merged in to one single forum creating the single largest community of operating system developers working on different OSes. The original OS development newsgroups are eclipsed by several orders of magnitude in traffic.
== Famous Quotes / Usenet Posts==
* '''Aug 25 1991''': Linus Torvalds announces the Linux kernel for the first time on comp.os.minix. [http://www.linux.org/info/linus.html]
* '''Oct 6 1991''': Linus Torvalds announces v0.02 of the Linux kernel. [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/e3df794a2bce97da]
* Bill Gates: ''The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.''
* Dennis Ritchie: ''UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.''
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