IEEE Software, 2000, Vol. 17, n. 3
During 1991 and 1992, the landscape of libre software, and of
software development in general, was ready for a change. In two
D different communities, two very exciting events were taking
place: 386BSD, a libre derivative of the BSD code, was born, and
Linus Torvalds distributed the first versions of the Linux kernel. Soon after,
the software community had two libre operating systems at its disposal (for
some basic references to online information on libre products and distribu-
tion, see the “Online Resources” and “Terminology” sidebars)
