'Just a Hobby, Won't Be Big': Linus Torvalds Introduced Linux 35 Years Ago - and Almost Called It Freax
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'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax
It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same.
On August 25, 1991, a student announced his small computer project on a forum. Today, Linux celebrates its 35th anniversary by propelling 80% of web servers, all supercomputers and billions of Android smartphones. This modest hobby has transformed itself into an indispensable pillar of digital infrastructure, dictating its own rules.
Linux Turns 35 – Hobby Kernel Now Powers Cloud, Android, and Global Cyber Defense
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old University of Helsinki student posted a modest note to the Usenet group comp.os.minix. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones,” Linus Torvalds wrote, adding that the project had been brewing since April and was starting to […] This article has been indexed from Cyber Security News Read the original article: Linux Turns 35 – Hobby Kernel…
Torvalds called Linux a hobby. 35 years later it runs every supercomputer on Earth
The message Linus Torvalds sent to the comp.os.minix mailing list at 21 fits in a paragraph. He was working on a free operating system for 386 clones, he wrote, and wanted to know what features people wanted. “Won’t be big and professional like gnu,” he added. The entire post is 174 words. The code behind it was roughly 10,000 lines. Today Linux is 40 million lines of code — 4,000 times the original. The TOP500 list, which ranks the world’s most…
Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure
The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today. On August 25, 1991, the unknown computer science student noted that the budding OS had been “brewing since April, and is starting to get ready.” The first public release of this ‘Minix-like’ OS came the following month, and in a last-minute change by the co-worker who uploaded it, was distributed with the name Linux instead of Freax. In…
Thirty-five years ago Linus Torvalds gave everyone his operating system, Linux. All 500 supercomputers on the planet today owe him something
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