nkat2112 comments on 35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] juli@lemmy.world 3 points 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

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I don’t know if I would call Linux the most professional, but it’s definitely the biggest.

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