The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux. In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, ...

With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds ...

It seems as though there are as many Linux distributions as there are letters in the alphabet with which to name them. Certainly, there is a flavor to satisfy almost any palate. It wasn't always this ...

August 25, 2021 marked thirty years of Linus Torvalds’ now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix news group, where he shared plans to work on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones as a ...

August 25, 1991, was the date on which Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix group, announcing that he was in the beginning stages of creating an operating system. "I’m doing a (free) ...

It is widely used not only as a free general-purpose OS but also as an OS for supercomputersLinuxIt is said to be the most successful masterpiece as open source software. Be the creator of that ...

Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began, Do you pine for the nice days of ...

We get it. Linux is just for nerds. Not mere nerds—we’re all nerds—Linux nerds. It’s a hobbyist OS for contrarians. It’s an antique. An oddity. Pointless. Right? Very, very wrong. Happy birthday, ...

Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Finland, starts toying with the idea of creating his own clone of the Minix OS. 17 SEPTEMBER 1991 - v0.01 Posted on ftp.funet.fi ...

In 2011, you may not "see" Linux, but it's everywhere. Do you use Google, Facebook or Twitter? If so, you're using Linux. That Android phone in your pocket? Linux. DVRs? Your network attached storage ...

25th August 1991 was the day when Linux was conceptualised by a student at University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds. 25th August, 1991 was the day when Linux was conceptualised by a student named ...