Today, August 25, is the day most open-source folk bust out the bunting to celebrate the famous kernel’s formal founding. It was on this day 30 years ago that a fresh-faced Fin named Linus Torvalds sat down to type out a small announcement and share it with the Minix newsgroup.

The subject? His ‘hobby’ operating system…

Much of what we use, whether it runs Linux or not, likely relies on Linux in some form.

See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/happy-30th-birthday-linux

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