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-ATÂ (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 [...]