Happy 30th Birthday Linux | One Of The Biggest Day In The History Of Tech

Today is the 30th birthday of our favorite operating system Linux. It is one of the biggest day in the history of technology. Right now, Linux is one of the most popular and powerful operating systems that is being used in wide range of sectors. It is powering laptops to mobiles, washing machines to super computers and so on.

Happy 30th Birthday Linux | One Of The Biggest Day In The History Of Tech

Linus Benedict Torvalds, a 21-year-old Finnish student, published his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix news group on August 25, 1991 regarding the beginning of the next big thing on technology.

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
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 :-(.