Happy Birthday Linux!!

On 25 August 1991, a computer science student at the University of Helsinki announced on a Usenet posting to the newsgroup “comp.os.minix.”:

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 (torvalds@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 :-(.
 
   —Linus Torvalds 

Courtesy: The Linux Foundation
 And after the announcement computing world changed; for it was the birth of Linux, the first open source operating system. Little did he realise back then that his hobby project would power 413 supercomputers, millions of smartphones, ATMs, navigation systems and entertainment kiosks and even the New York and London Stock Exchanges!! 
Today Linux turns 20. A great milestone in the computing history. Linux has come a long way since it was first released and to commemorate this, The Linux Foundation is holding a celebration.  More information can be found here.

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