The 30th anniversary of the birth of the world's most used open source UNIX-like OS 'Linux'



On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds , a student at the University of Helsinki at the time, released 'Linux ', an OS kernel developed by himself. August 25, 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of 'Linux Birthday'.

30th Anniversary of Linux --Linux Foundation
https://linuxfoundation.org/linux30th/

Linux turns 30: Linus Torvalds on his 'just a hobby' operating system | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-linuxs-30th-birthday/

Happy birthday – 30 Years of Linux | Ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/blog/happy-birthday-30-years-of-linux

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds wrote in the Usenet newsgroup ' comp.os.minix ' ' Hello MINIX users. I have a (free) OS for 386 (486) AT clones. I'm developing it (although it's just a hobby, not as big and professional as GNU ). It's been in development since April and is about to be released. This OS is a bit like MINIX. I want to give you feedback on what you like and dislike about MINIX (for example, the physical layout of the file system is the same (for practical reasons)). ' Generally, August 25th, when this post was made, is considered the 'Linux birthday'.



At that time, GNU, which had been developed since 1983, was expected to be an 'ambitious, free, and public domain OS,' but development was difficult and stagnant. At that time, Mr. Torvalds developed Linux as a free OS with reference to MINIX, which is an educational OS, and released it as open source under the GNU GPL. Since then, the Linux kernel has been incorporated into the development of GNU. 'If GNU development went well, I might not have been developing the Linux kernel,' Torvalds said.


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According to Torvalds, there are four Linux birthdays. One was on August 25, when Linux was revealed to comp.os.minix, but about a month earlier, on July 3, 1991, Torvalds wrote in comp.os.minix, 'I am now. I'm interested in POSIX about the MINIX-related projects I'm working on, 'and Torvalds has made July 3rd his second birthday. Also, September 17th, when we secretly released version 0.01 to only a few people who were interested , was our third birthday, and October 5th, when we first publicly announced Linux version 0.02, was our fourth birthday. It will be.

'Linux wasn't a university-related project, and I didn't want to do that. The University of Helsinki, at least the Department of Computer Science, was very tolerant of informal extracurricular activities. Linux isn't always It's nothing special, it just happened to be a big one. '

In addition, it seems that the name 'Linux' was a tentative name that Mr. Torvalds gave himself, but Mr. Torvalds said that 'it is too ego' and the official name is 'Freax' which means Free Unix instead of Linux. He said he tried to do it. However, in September 1991, when Linux was uploaded to an FTP server for universities and research institutes in Finland, Ali Remke of Helsinki University of Technology, who was involved in development at that time, hated the name 'Freax' and arbitrarily put it on the server. It seems that the project name of is rewritten to 'Linux' and it has taken root.

Speaking of Linux, a penguins named 'Tux' is the mascot character, which was decided when the Linux logo design contest was held in 1996. Torvalds also loves Tux and performs at events such as wearing penguin costumes and diving with penguins.


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Rob Gibbon of Canonical , a company that supports and develops Ubuntu , one of the Linux distributions, said, '30 years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced a free OS called'Linux'to the world. Linux, like many of the greatest in the world, has made a humble start as a tiny project. '

'Linux has been the foundation of free software for many years and has been under development with little interference from governments, businesses and academic institutions around the world. At the time of writing, Linux was It's installed in every device, including servers, smartphones and embedded devices, enriching the lives of billions of people around the world. 'Today, we are developing with Linux on the 30th anniversary of Linux's birth. Congratulations on the global free and open source software movement that has been undertaken, and a toast to Mr. Tobals and what he has started. Happy Birthday to Linux. '

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