Re: (forw) Happy 25th birthday Linux!
Steve Litt <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 02:55:37 -0700 Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Pam <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:56:12 +1000 > From: Andrew Pam <[email protected]> > To: LUV Main <[email protected]> > Subject: Happy 25th birthday Linux! > Organization: Serious Cybernetics > > "On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus > Benedict Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix Usenet > newsgroup saying that he was working on a free operating system as a > project to learn about the x86 architecture. He cannot possibly have > known that he was launching a project that would change the computing > industry in fundamental ways. Twenty-five years later, it is fair to > say that none of us foresaw where Linux would go — a lesson that > should be taken to heart when trying to imagine where it might go from > here." > > https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/698042/a58a7e353224ef3d/ > > And thanks to LWN.net for their consistently excellent coverage. > > Share and enjoy, For using a monolithic kernel, I give you an F! :-) SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _______________________________________________ svlug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug