How was Linux made?

Linus Torvalds created Linux when he was a student at the University of Helsinki studying computer science. In early 1991 he purchased an IBM-compatible personal computer that came with the MS-DOS operating system. … With Linux being free and open source software, it has led to the rise of Linux distributions.

Is Linux written in C or C++?

Linux. Linux is also written mostly in C, with some parts in assembly. About 97 percent of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers run the Linux kernel.