Happy 15th Birthday Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 25, 2006 @06:28AM from the what-do-you-get-a-penguin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's 15 years already! On August 25th, 1991 Linus Torvalds submitted the famous message to comp.os.minix: '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)' Happy Birthday Linux!"

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Re:Well, that's great by Kazymyr · 2006-08-25 07:14 · Score: 1, Troll

Damn. 14 years and it's still barely usable.

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Re:First usable version of Windows? by soliptic · 2006-08-25 07:20 · Score: 0, Troll

:sigh: oh well, keep it up. Over here on XP I've had no crashes in 5 years and support for all the software and hardware I actually want to use. Whereas linux... well, it wouldn't even load X at any resolution, which makes it pretty comprehensively unusable as far as I'm concerned.