1968
ARPANET founded. The precursor to the Internet, it allows researchers to share code and information.
1969
Ken Thompson, researcher at Bell Labs, writes the first version of Unix.
1979
AT&T announces plans to commercialize Unix.
1983
Richard Stallman establishes the Free Software Foundation at MIT. The GNU project to construct an operating system based on Unix but for which the source code is freely available, begins. Stallman also establishes the idea of "copyleft" and the General Public License (GPL).
1987
Andrew Tanenbaum releases Minix, a version of Unix for the PC, Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST. Source code included.
1989
Michael Tiemann (Red Hat Vice President, Open Source Affairs) co-founds Cygnus Solutions, the first business to provide custom engineering and support services for free software.
1991
Linus Torvalds releases the Linux kernel.
Bob Young introduced to free software and UNIX by the system administrators of the New York City UNIX Users Group (Unigroup).
1993
Young incorporates ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sells Linux and Unix software accessories and books and distributes a magazine called New York UNIX
1994
Marc Ewing creates his own distribution of Linux which he names Red Hat Linux. Released in October, it becomes known as the Halloween release.
1995
Young buys Ewing's business, merges it with ACC Corporation, and names the new company Red Hat Software.
Red Hat Linux 2.0 is released, officially unveils the new package management system called RPM.
1996
Red Hat opens sales and administration functions to North Carolina, opens corporate headquarters in Durham.
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