Linux Celebrates its 20th Birthday

[Rob Williams]

On August 25, 1991, computer programmer Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet group stating that he had begun work on a MINIX replacement, one that was just meant to be a "hobby". He said he was to be free, and said that it'd likely never support anything other than AT hard disks - as that's all he had at the time.

Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!

 

[JMMDTG]

Happy B-day Linux!!

 

[OriginalJoeCool]

Happy Birthday! It's almost as old as me!

 

[MacMan]

Happy Birthday, and many, many more! :O)

 

[Kayden]

THE CAKE IS A LIE!!! (c;

happy Bday Linux.

 

[Rsline]

Happy birthday. Think some of the earliest versions I ever used date back to the late 90s. Man that was a pain trying to get it to work on hardware. Glad your still alive and kicking.

 

[OriginalJoeCool]

This reminds me. Wenesday was Team Fortress 2's birthday! People had party hats, and the powers-ups and ammo crates were cakes and presents. And you'd turn into confetti when you explode. That was pretty fun.

 

[Kougar]

He said he was to be free

Oh, I didn't realize this turned into a Martin Luther King anniversary article too!