Happy 33rd Birthday, Linux!

Today is August 25th, which means that Linux turns 33 years old!

On August 25th, 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds, then a 21-year-old Finnish student, made an announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup. He mentioned that he was working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones—just as a "hobby." which turned into something huge, used by millions of computer users around the globe.

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
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
:-(.

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