[Off-topic] Linux turned 10 years old yesterday ...
Posted by
Bryan-TheBS-Smith
on 2001-08-26 14:14:22 UTC
In case you didn't get enough of this elsewhere ...
Linux turned 10 years old yesterday. It was actually in development
in early 1991 as University of Helsinki (Finland) freshman Linus
Torvalds poured over the Intel 386/MMU spec books. The first
"public" release, version 0.01, was announced by Linus on the UseNet
newsgroup comp.os.minix on August 25, 1991. The original name was
Freeix (?), but eventually the name "Linux" (pronounced "LEENOOKS"
by Linus himself, but long or short "I" and "NUCKS" are perfectly
acceptable pronunciations as well) was coined as it quickly became
known as "Linus' little UNIX." The rest is history.
-- TheBS
<Johnny Cochrane>
The IBM PC is 20 years old this year.
Linus is 10 years old this year.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
</Johnny Cochrane>
--
Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@... chat:thebs413
Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org
President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
Linux turned 10 years old yesterday. It was actually in development
in early 1991 as University of Helsinki (Finland) freshman Linus
Torvalds poured over the Intel 386/MMU spec books. The first
"public" release, version 0.01, was announced by Linus on the UseNet
newsgroup comp.os.minix on August 25, 1991. The original name was
Freeix (?), but eventually the name "Linux" (pronounced "LEENOOKS"
by Linus himself, but long or short "I" and "NUCKS" are perfectly
acceptable pronunciations as well) was coined as it quickly became
known as "Linus' little UNIX." The rest is history.
-- TheBS
<Johnny Cochrane>
The IBM PC is 20 years old this year.
Linus is 10 years old this year.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
</Johnny Cochrane>
--
Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@... chat:thebs413
Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org
President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com