35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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• nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • juli@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

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• Pat@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably never will support anything other than AT hard disks Let me check on that, using my Linux computer. With an M.2 SSD.

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• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Protable” man this guy is going nowhere.

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