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- linux
- cross-posted to:
- linux
It’s August 25th and it’s Linux’s 32nd birthday, so join me in celebrating the birthday of Linux for those of you who celebrate it on this day with a glass of good champagne and a delicious cake!
On August 25th, 1991, the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby.”
I actually thought linux was older than that. TIL.
You probably were thinking of Unix, which was around since the '60s.
70s really. Multics is not Unix (not an acronym).
yes but someone will make it one now
Oh dear. What have I done?
MNU.
Same. Turns out I’m older than Linux and I would have guessed the opposite, by a lot.