http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/linux-23-170.png?w=370&h=350Linux reached the entirely respectable age of 23 this week, more or less.
More or less 23, that is, not more or less respectable.
25 August 1991 was the day that a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds announced that he was working on a hobby operating system, and invited people to say what they'd like to see in it.
Ironically, because his project didn't have a name yet, he posted his announcement to the newsgroup comp.os.minix with the subject line What would you like to see most in 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 to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
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