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Happy Birthday, Linux

posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the 1A-candles dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Twenty-six years ago today, someone from Finland posted the following message to 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 protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Here's wishing him and his creation another twenty-six happy years of world domination.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:36PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:36PM (#559002)

    But he is from Finland!

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:44PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @05:44PM (#559006) Journal

    Not only is he from Finland, but he is equipped with an asshole.

    The world needs more assholes!!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:21PM (#559039)

      He is an embodiment of recursion.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday August 25 2017, @06:39PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday August 25 2017, @06:39PM (#559058)

    > But he is from Finland!

    http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/penpals/stats.php3?Pays=FIN [studentsoftheworld.info]

    I'm glad to be running Linux, rather than Mikkox.