Happy Birthday, Linux!

Jon maddog Hall maddog at li.org
Wed Sep 17 16:35:46 EDT 2003


Hi,

While there are several concepts of when Linux was "born", certainly one of
them is September 17, 1991 when the first tarball of code was posted on the
net:

        linux-0.01.tar.gz

before this, the name of the system was supposed to be "Freax"

For those newer to Linux and Free and Open Source Software, there is a brief
history of those early moments written by Linus himself at this URL:

http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php

Warmest regards,

md
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