Linux 已经诞生 24 周年

2015 年 8 月 25 日是 Linux 的 24 岁生日。在 1991 年 4月，芬兰的赫尔辛基大学年仅 21 岁的学生 Linus Torvalds 开始做一个他自己的操作系统。在 24 年前的今天，即 1991年8月25日，他在 usenet 的 comp.os.minix 新闻组中发布了 Linux 的第一个公告，宣布了 Linux 的诞生。以下是当年 Torvalds 写的邮件：

    Path: gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds

    From: torv...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (LinusBenedictTorvalds)

    Newsgroups: comp.os.minix

    Subject:What would you like to see most in minix?

    Summary: small poll formynew operating system

    Keywords:386, preferences

    Message-ID:<1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>

    Date:25Aug9120:57:08 GMT

    Organization:University of Helsinki

    Lines:20

    Hello everybody out there using minix -

    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and

    professional like gnu)for386(486) AT clones.This has been brewing

    since april,andis 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(torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

    PS.Yes- it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.

    It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never

    will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

在该年的九月， Linux Kernel 0.01 发布到了芬兰大学和研究网（FUNET） 上的一个 FTP 服务器（ftp.funet.fi）。当时仅有 10239 行代码。到了十月，又发布了 0.02。

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