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Linus Torvalds Started a Revolution on August 25, 1991. Happy Birthday, Linux!

The Linux project has just turned 23 and it’s now the biggest collaborative endeavor in the world, with thousands of people working on it.

Back in 1991, a young programmer called Linus Torvalds wanted to make a free operating system that wasn’t going to be as big as the GNU project and that was just a hobby. He started something that would turn out to be the most successful operating system on the planet, but no one would have been able to guess it back then.

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