Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds on the LinuxCon 2011
Picture: Chris Schlaeger On this Saturday before 20 years was released
Linux 0.01. The 17th September is therefore regarded as the birthday of
Linux - or rather, as one of several possible birthdays. Like Linux
inventor Linus Torvalds himself said in an interview , there are (at
least) four legitimate events that can be celebrated as the birthday of
the free operating system.
Already on 25 August Torvalds wrote in a famous mail to the Minix
newsgroup that he is working on a free operating system for PCs, and
asked for feedback. One has to this first public mention of Linux (its
working title was still "Freax" was) reached an agreement as "official"
birthday - not least because Linux was not publicly announced 0:01, so
that only very few people have ever experienced it.
If you wanted to take the first public version of Linux as a birthday,
you'd have until the 5th October wait: On this date announced Linux
Torvalds be 0.02 in the newsgroup comp.os.minix - and immediately sought
to colleagues: "You Yearn for the good old days of Minix-1.1, when men
were men and wrote their own drivers? missing you a cool project and you
want to rush her to an operating system that you can customize to your
own desires? you find it frustrating when everything works on Minix? "
If, however, it should be possible sooner Birthday: On 3 Torvalds said
in July - also in the Minix newsgroup - after the POSIX documentation
that defines the Unix interface Ellen. This mail is the earliest public
notice that the inventor was working on a Linux-Unix-like operating
system. Torvalds had started in that from which then should be the Linux
kernel, in winter 1990/91 - exactly he can do it in his autobiography,
"Just for fun " But do not tell itself.
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