[lug] Happy 30th, Linux

[Walter Pienciak]

Geez, 30 years.

Slackware via FTP and a 56k line in 1993 onto 3.5-in floppies.  *mutter
mutter* some beta version.

Walter

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 9:11 AM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:

> On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his famous message to the
> comp.os.minix USENET group:
>
> "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."
>
> How long have you been using Linux? I started in the summer of 1998, with
> RedHat 5.2.
>
> --
> All operating systems suck, but Linux just sucks less
>  - Linus Torvalds
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