Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
On January 22, 2007 OSDL and the Free Standards Group merged as the Linux Foundation, combining development support with standards work.
After the kernel lost free BitKeeper access in 2005, Torvalds built Git into a usable distributed source manager in roughly ten days.
Linux 1.0 arrived on March 14, 1994 as the first stable-number kernel, targeting 386/486 PCs with TCP/IP and a growing driver/filesystem base.
Released December 11, 2022, Linux 6.1 became the first kernel version to officially accept Rust as a second language for kernel development, alongside C.
At WWDC on June 22, 2020, Tim Cook announced a two-year plan to move every Mac from Intel processors to Apple's own chips.
Released March 24, 2001 at $129, Mac OS X 10.0 brought Apple's NeXT-derived, Unix-based operating system to consumers for the first time.
Released September 30, 2015, OS X 10.11 shipped with SIP enabled by default — restricting even the root user from modifying protected system files.
Released August 28, 2009, Snow Leopard was the first Mac OS X built exclusively for Intel Macs — a deliberate stability release, not a new-features showcase.
On May 18, 2007, Leopard on Intel Macs became the first BSD-based OS to earn Open Brand UNIX 03 certification, making 'Mac OS X is Unix' a certified fact.
Dolphin's 2003 debut proved commercial GameCube software could run under emulation, before open sourcing and expanding into Wii support.