Aniversário do Linux

O Linux é o kernel que inclui nas diversas distribuições (distros) existentes, as principais distros são: Slackware, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, openSUSE, Gentoo, Mint, Pop!_OS.

O Linux foi criado por Linus Torvalds em 1991, em Helsinki. O nome Linux surgiu da mistura de Linus com Unix, que é o sistema operacional dos anos 70 da AT&T Bell Laboratories.

O lançamento do Linux é no dia 25 de Agosto de 1991, que o Linus anunciou o Linux em um post no newsgroup "comp.os.minix" da Usenet.

Hello everybody out there using minix

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

— Linus Torvalds

Conheça melhor a história do Linux e software livre

Para saber mais sobre o surgimento do movimento software livre e Linux, assista o documentário Revolution OS, pesquise no Youtube que tem esse documentário.

Feito!