On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever. Happy Birthday, #Linux kernel.
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"won't be big an professional like gnu"...
Little he knew back then. 😊
@nixCraft i forgot again 😳
@hacknorris @nixCraft Depending on your timezone, you still have some time left before it's the 26th here :-)
@haploc yep i have but anyway…
@nixCraft happy 32 years birthday, "just a hobby" 😘 πŸ˜†
@nixCraft Actually, it was not an email but a usenet posting.
@nixCraft @leyrer Da hab ich schonmal davon gehΓΆrt, da bekommt man doch Raubkopien, oder? Duck und weg.....
@nixCraft We need a World Linux Day! πŸ™‚

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...and it probably never will support anything other than AT-Hartdisks...

(looks at his android phone) Ah, well...

@nixCraft Happy birthday 🐧 πŸŽ‚
@nixCraft @NewtonMark I remember well when 1999 was the year of Linux on the desktop 😊🐧
But in all seriousness - use it every day
Happy birthday!
@nixCraft some people are reading this on a android phone running Linux kernel. The phone is smaller than the AT harddisk πŸ™‚
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comp.os.minix.
What would you like to see most in minix?
Linus Benedict Torvalds
8/26/91
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and cc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'lI get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus ([email protected])
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc),

and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

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Re: only 386

Famous last words

When it is FLOSS, good stuff will happen.

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His OS is what every Scientist's equipment runs on now.