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
Comment on 35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
juli@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I don’t know if I would call Linux the most professional, but it’s definitely the biggest.