It's 35 years since Linus Torvalds first revealed Linux, calling it 'just a hobby' — how wrong he…
- Linus Torvalds introduced Linux in 1991 as a modest personal project
- Linux grew from roughly 10,000 lines into more than 40 million
- Linux now operates across servers, embedded devices, and cloud infrastructure worldwide
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish computer enthusiast introduced an operating system project online.
At that time, Linus Torvalds was experimenting with Minix, an educational operating system created for teaching operating system principles.
His announcement appeared on Usenet, where he sought reactions from people familiar with Minix and explained what he was developing.
A modest announcement becomes Linux
Torvalds described the project cautiously, making clear that he did not expect anything particularly large from his experiment.
In his original announcement, he wrote, "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...
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