living in the information age

living in the information age

Linux kernel is now 17 years old

On October 5th 1991, Linux Torvalds sent a message to the newsgroup comp.os.minix titled Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT (original announcement now archived at google’s usenet archive). That was about 17 years back when all that was required for a free GNU Operating System project was a bootable kernel. Today after contributions from thousands of [...]

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