Happy 31st Birthday, Linux! | Linux Today

Happy 31st Birthday, Linux!

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Marius Nestor
Aug 25, 2022

While some don’t recognize August 25th as Linux’s birthday, I do. It was on August 25th, 1991, when 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby.” Happy 31st birthday, Linux!

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Marius Nestor

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