Linux Turns 24 Today

[ThunderRd]

One of the most famous messages in all computing was posted exactly 24 years ago today, on 25 August, 1991:

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.

Read more about the birth of Linux in the words of the boss [from arstechnica]:
http://arstechnica.com/information-...x-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/

 

[booman]

I read that when I saw it on Google+ yesterday
Pretty cool that Linux started as a simple tool to read news through a modem.
How cool is that?