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Happy 13th Birthday Linux!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-lucky-on dept.

carlmenezes writes "On August 25, 2001 we celebrated the 10th birthday of Linux. Today, it's year 13. Lucky for Linux, maybe?" Congrats to everyone who managed to get their name in the credits! You must be very proud parents.

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  1. First words by hotspotbloc · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Hello everybody out there using minux - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professinal like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds, August 25, 2001

    Does anyone have a link or the text to the complete accouncement email?

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    1. Re:First words by mqRakkis · · Score: 5, Interesting
      From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
      Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
      Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
      Summary: small poll for my new operating system
      Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
      Dat e: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
      Organization: University of Helsinki

      Hello everybody out there using minix -
      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 any feedback on
      things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
      (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
      among other things).
      I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
      This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
      I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
      are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
      Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
      PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
      It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
      will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
  2. Re:My Experience with the Linux by KrisCowboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Woooow buddy. Here in India, we consider it a bad practise and disrespectful to insult someone on their birthday :) So you a VB programmer, huh? To quote ESR,
    Visual Basic is especially awful. Like other Basics it's a poorly-designed language that will teach you bad programming habits. No, don't ask me to describe them in detail; that explanation would fill a book. Learn a well-designed language instead.

    So the Linux server crashed, huh? That's a pretty lame excuse. I'm a part-time administator for a server running httpd, file-sharing, DNS and squid. And the uptime is 55 days and still running. Come on buddy, see what we got here :)

    Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc,

    Well well well, what age are you in? What are ext3 and reiferfs? No SMP support? My server is a IBM Xeon Dual processor with hyper-threading. however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
    You got to be kidding me.
    Note to self: Alter the companies for which this anonymous coward does consulting.

  3. year what? by weighn · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Today, it's year 13

    wouldn't today be year 14?

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  4. Google Doodle by r.jimenezz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad the Google Doodle is taken up for a couple of weeks with the Olympics, otherwise Google should put up a penguin there to acknowledge this milestone.

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  5. Still took ten years by ToasterTester · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember ten years ago read an article about developing a OS. It quoted Bill Gates on why there is so little competition. The gist of his answer is first the cost is too high for most companies to want to take on. Second he said to get to market then have the product mature takes about ten years. So Linux beat the cost factor, but not the time factor.

  6. Re:Happy B-Day! by danormsby · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here, here.

    But why only have one birthday a year. Later this year we have 7,000,000 minutes old and next year there is 5,000 days old to celebrate.

    More useless date facts available here.

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  7. That's really cool by The+Slashdolt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    because today is my birthday, seriously (29). I had no idea I shared my birthday with Linux.

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  8. Re:My Experience with the Linux by tigerc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it.
    Uh huh. That's why a majority of the world's web servers run Apache. here These developers are hardly "weekend hackers", but devoted people. Read this

    As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
    So that's why Google and Amazon, for example, run Linux? [netcraft.com]

  9. Pregnant by Hieronymus+Howard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So today is not Linux's 13th birthday. It's actually the 13th anniversary of Linus announcing that he was pregnant. The date of the first public release of the code should be the actual birthday.

    As someone mentioned earlier, Linux 0.01 was released on Sept. 17, 1991