Feature: March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux
Posted by adminAug 26
The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. At the time, Torvalds described his work as a “hobby” and contended that it would not be “big and professional” like the GNU project. But the Linux kernel turned out to be one of the most significant pieces of open source …
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