JLP’s Blog

I’m about one day too late with this, but anyway. Happy birthday Linux! It was 25 August 1991 when Linus Torvalds, a student from Finland, announced his small hobby project: making a free operating system similar to minix. And today, 15 years later, the Linux kernel is far from being just a hobby. In fact, together with the free software movement, initiated by Richard Stallman, it started a small revolution in the world of software and computing. Today GNU/Linux is one of the fastest developing platforms and a lot of innovation is happening here. Just one of the latest, more visible, things is a great looking 3D desktop that works nicely together with touch-screens. Can’t wait to see what Linux kernel and other open source projects will bring to the world in the years that are coming.

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