nixCraft 🐧 on Nostr: On August 25, 1991, the Linux kernel was given to the world as a FOSS gift by a young ...
On August 25, 1991, the Linux kernel was given to the world as a FOSS gift by a young Linus Torvalds. He is the real hero who released the Linux kernel 35 years ago for all of us w/ GNU as userland tools, GCC C/C++ and more. The rest is history. Long live Linux!
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.htmlPublished at
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