Linux on the Desktop – the right kernel at the wrong time On the 25th August 1991, an unknown 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, named Linus Torvalds, posted on a Usenet forum that he was working on creating and releasing an operating system kernel based on Minix, a Unix-like operating system....
NeXTSTEP – the father of Apple’s iOS and OS X In 1985, Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, left the company due to board room politics and intrigue. He subsequently launched NeXT – a computer company that would focus on providing high-end workstations to businesses and the educational sector, with an emphasis on selling these workstations...
