With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began, Do you pine for the nice days of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. August 25, 2021 marked thirty years of Linus Torvalds’ now-famous announcement on the ...

August 25, 1991, was the date on which Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix group, announcing that he was in the beginning stages of creating an operating system. "I’m doing a (free) ...