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Happy 15th Birthday Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Well, that's great by chriso11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just 15 years? Amazing what Windows hasn't done in all that time.

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  2. Second try by suso · · Score: 4, Informative

    We went over this last year. Linux was released on September 17th, not in August.

    1. Re:Second try by e4g4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Right....but it was today, 15 years ago, that Linus told everyone about it...I suppose you could say that it's not really Linux's birthday, but more like the anniversary of the day that Linus Torvalds told everyone that he was pregnant with a beautiful baby androgynous operating system...

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  3. don't forget by anti-drew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Happy, uh, zeroth birthday to the Hurd.

    Good thing Linus didn't decide to just wait for GNU to finish their OS instead...

  4. You gotta love /. by aaronwormus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    10 years of annoucing minor point Linux Kernel releases, and then Linux's 15th birthday doesn't even make it to the front page.

  5. Never trust guys (or girls) who use nested clauses by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never trust guys (or girls) who use nested clauses. You just can't (as I've learned from past experience) know that what you've heard (or perhaps read) is really what they (or their source) really meant (or felt).

  6. Stay off the roads. by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next year, Linux drives a car.

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  7. First usable version of Windows? by krell · · Score: 5, Funny

    "arguably the first usable version"

    I don't expect the first usable version of Windows until 2022.

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  8. Re:to be fair by Cyberax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GNU/Hurd developers are commited to create THE best possible kernel. They don't have any time pressure so they can freely make experiments in the true spirit of Open Source.

    Right now, there is an ongoing effort to use Coyotos ( http://coyotos.org/ ) to create the first operating system with the proved correctness of its kernel.

    Besides, message-passing interfaces (the core feature of microkernels) can be potentially very efficiently implemented on multicore processors. For example, ARM Fast Address Space Switching (FASS) can potentially make microkernels FASTER than common monolythic ones.