sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!lemmy.todayimagemessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down11cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.world
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minus-squarenkat2112@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 months ago15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago: > It won’t be big and professional Turns his “hobby” into the biggest, most professional, and most important software project in the solar system.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI don’t know if I would call Linux the most professional, but it’s definitely the biggest.
minus-squarejuli@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months ago 15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago He was 21. As Torvalds wrote in his book Just for Fun, he eventually ended up writing an operating system kernel. On 25 August 1991, he (at age 21) announced this system in another posting to the comp.os.minix newsgroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago:
> It won’t be big and professional
Turns his “hobby” into the biggest, most professional, and most important software project in the solar system.
I don’t know if I would call Linux the most professional, but it’s definitely the biggest.
He was 21.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux