When Minix creator Andy Tanenbaum posted the infamous “Linux is obsolete” thread on comp.os.minix on January 29, 1992, it would spark a tech debate between himself and Linux creator Linus Torvalds ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. August 25, 2021 marked thirty years of Linus Torvalds’ now-famous announcement on the ...

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 ...