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15 Years of Linux! Happy Birthday Linux!	By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor 25th of August 2006, 19:01 GMT Adjust text size:


15 years have passed since Linux appeared. On August 25th 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds has announced the world about his new operating system: "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 gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll 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 (torva...@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(." Happy Birthday Linux!

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Comment #1 by: BaltikaTroika on 28 Aug 2006, 04:16 GMT	reply to this comment
Happy birthday, linux! And thanks for the reminder (and the great linux software), Softpedia!

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