Linux meets 17 years

An Oct. 5, 1991 Linus Torvalds released its first kernel in comp.os.minix.

The message that was published the headline: “Free mini-like kernel sources for 386-AT.” Thus was born the first Linux kernel.

The announcement of Torvalds began as follows: “Do you remember the good days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own drivers for devices? Are you no good project and you die by an OS that you can modify to suit your needs? Are you happy frustrating to work all in minix? Did not most nights to make a program works? Then this post is for you.

A month later wrote, I’m working on a free version for desktop computers to minix 386-AT. Has finally reached the point that it is even usable (though it may not depends on what you want), and I’m putting the sources for wider distribution. It is only the version 0.02 (1 (very small) already patched), but I’ve been able to run over him bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress.”