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Re: thirty years ago

From "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: thirty years ago
Date 2021-08-30 08:29 +0300
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Eli the Bearded wrote:
> First Linux announcement, 25 August 1991.
> 
>    From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
>    Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
>    Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
>    Summary: small poll for my new operating system
>    Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
>    Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
>    Organization: University of Helsinki
> 
> 
>    Hello everybody out there using minix -
> 
>    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
>    professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
>    since april, and is starting to get ready.  I'd like any feedback on
>    things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
>    (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
>    among other things).
> 
>    I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
>    This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
>    I'd like to know what features most people would want.  Any suggestions
>    are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
> 
> 		 Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
> 
>    PS.  Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
>    It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
>    will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
> 
<snip>

30 things you didn't know about the Linux kernel

https://opensource.com/article/21/8/linux-kernel

Sounds of the Compiling Linux Kernel

https://youtu.be/4yMVkQRhiiQ

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