Linux Comes of Age

[Ray MacDonald]

Linux celebrates its 21st birthday today. On Aug 25, 1991 Linus Torvalds published his famous notice on the comp.os.minix newsgroup announcing his development of a 386 compatible minix-like kernel. Linux has come a long way since then.

[AngryBaconGod]

I played around with Minix way back. I would make changes to the kernel, compile, and then watched as the OS failed to work at all until I took my changes back out.

[Andy S.]

Linux celebrates its 21st birthday today. On Aug 25, 1991 Linus Torvalds published his famous notice on the comp.os.minix newsgroup announcing his development of a 386 compatible minix-like kernel. Linux has come a long way since then.

...indeed it has, happy birthday, good work Linus.

[e2k]

Happy birthday Linux! I've played around with different distros since 2003, and have tried everything from custom-built Gentoos to out-of-the-box Ubuntus. It surely has come a long way since its birth, and development seems to be continuing at a respectable pace.