Happy 16th Birthday Linux Kernel!
Linus Torvalds 16 year ago, 25th August 1991, emailed developers around the world announcing his new operating system(OS). At that time he never realized that it’s going to be a history. Who would know that Linux will eventually become so popular that most of the top companies are considering it very seriously and it’s now enterprise level operating system. A system to which they can rely their mission critical business operations.
Anyways, here I quote his email:
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 (torva…@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 :-(.
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Hi..
Happy birthday too. Linux is The BEST and So Fun and easy to work with. With lots of features, some are little hard to understand.. but the results are always awesome. I have one server working under that OS.