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Happy 17th Birthday Linux!

linuxjournal.com — Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today.

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apollo19, on 10/05/2008, -6/+22How many times a year? confused...

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/17/happy-birthda ...
- Protoss, on 10/05/2008, -0/+19Today was when he posted the source to the newsgroup.
dsearls, on 10/05/2008, -26/+7... and still being born...
- dsearls, on 10/06/2008, -1/+0Well, that'll teach me not to experimentally post a comment, just to see if it works. Still a rookie here, and getting over it.
- zenulator, on 10/06/2008, -1/+1.....and still growing.
  
  There fixed it for ya.
PaulCurrier, on 10/05/2008, -23/+4Happy Birthday Linux? Heck! Happybirthday ME! (smile)
stmiller, on 10/05/2008, -11/+15Thank you Linus! Happy birthday, Linux.
schestowitz, on 10/05/2008, -17/+7"I'm doing a free operating system just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu for 386 (486) AT clones."
-Linus Torvalds

Nice 'hobby'...

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/09/large ...
- aComa, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1"shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit"
  buried for inaccuracy.
narupo, on 10/05/2008, -40/+6No one cares.
- transform100, on 10/05/2008, -2/+16Go to hell!
- jay019, on 10/06/2008, -1/+2about your stupid comment and lack of life.
  - ProfChaosOmega, on 10/06/2008, -2/+1You use linux, youre not one to be talking about a lack of a life.
  - jay019, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2@ProfChaosOmega.
    Wow, cause I use linux I must not have a life.
    
    I typed a 1000 word reply detailing all the things I do with my wife and kids and friends but decided that the following line will suffice...
    
    You sir are an ignorant hater with a pathetic excuse for an existence!
ZephyrNinety, on 10/05/2008, -4/+55I can't wait til Linux turns 18 ;)
- lukasmach, on 10/05/2008, -1/+21Why? I mean, the age of consent in Finland is 16...
  - RgyaGramShad, on 10/05/2008, -1/+19In Yemen, it's 9
  - Biroboy, on 10/05/2008, -1/+6Its 16 in the UK as well
  - cgruber, on 10/05/2008, -7/+23
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  - JakeW, on 10/05/2008, -6/+4The age of consent is 16 in America, too. Eighteen holds a special value, though, because you are "legal".
    
    16-21 can date and have sex, but older 21 and they have to be 18.
  - smotpoker, on 10/05/2008, -1/+14@jake
    
    Age of consent varies by state
  - josepablos, on 10/05/2008, -1/+4pedobear approved
  - schestowitz, on 10/05/2008, -10/+2Well, Linux 'had sex' with a gnu when it was 1 (1992).
  - TheOther1, on 10/06/2008, -3/+3Over 9,000 penises agree!
  - flatfish, on 10/06/2008, -1/+8Yuck...And what would you know about sex Schestowitz?
    You spend 24x7 spamming garbage to every single corner of the Internet.
    http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=x ...
    
    And that's just your comp.os.linux.advocacy posts.
    You spam this crap to blogs, digg,slashdot,propeller etc as well.
    
    Somebody has to be paying you to do this or you are a complete idiot.
- RgyaGramShad, on 10/05/2008, -1/+13looks like someone has a penguin fetish…
  - trizzlelv, on 10/05/2008, -0/+3shake that bear, shake that bear!
- LordBacon, on 10/05/2008, -10/+3I can't wait til you're turns 18 ;)
- LordBacon, on 10/05/2008, -5/+5Edit : Good, you are legal, where i go to 'meet' you ?
jokr004, on 10/05/2008, -1/+39I really want to thank Linus for his amazing kernel, but I can't help but think that if it weren't for him, my Sun stock would be worth more
timothiuz, on 10/05/2008, -2/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeypOvsY91Q
MacintoshMan, on 10/05/2008, -19/+1***** GNU! happy bday linux, youve been great to me. I couldnt run my home network system without you.
- tehjarvis, on 10/05/2008, -0/+11I don't think you know what you're talking about.
- bratterscain, on 10/05/2008, -0/+12You probably have the GCC to thank for that as well.
  
  What a gnub!
- jay019, on 10/06/2008, -0/+5You cant run your home network without GNU twatdangler.
- JonForTheWin, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1"macintosh", explains it all.
zezerik, on 10/05/2008, -21/+3lame
HackerThatsme, on 10/05/2008, -28/+4linux sucks
- Protoss, on 10/05/2008, -1/+15Some hacker....
  - HackerThatsme, on 10/05/2008, -6/+1iknorite?
Dylson, on 10/05/2008, -23/+5Who gives a *****?
- thefinger, on 10/05/2008, -2/+6Precisely.
  - Dylson, on 10/05/2008, -8/+1Wat
over9k, on 10/05/2008, -15/+5Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?
- HackerThatsme, on 10/05/2008, -6/+1Nope.
- Wargasmic, on 10/05/2008, -1/+5That's every year...
- thefinger, on 10/05/2008, -2/+4Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
scottocom, on 10/05/2008, -1/+17So next year Linux will be 18 which in Australia means it can legally drink.. As in Beer.
- aComa, on 10/06/2008, -7/+0It's an operating system...
  - Balla79, on 10/06/2008, -1/+2sudo aptitude install humour
- harlequinade, on 10/06/2008, -0/+4We *really* should plan something special for that, guys! -- 18 years and the Redmond Mafia still can't kill it.
thefinger, on 10/05/2008, -20/+1Oh ***** off already!! So sick of this. Go away.
ChristianMagic, on 10/05/2008, -3/+12It's not like he's going to move out of his parents basement till he's 35.
Bkaufman, on 10/05/2008, -3/+3Just curious...does anyone know what percentage of the Kernel is written in pure assembly? This is coming from someone with some hardware knowledge but not much in the way of software knowledge.
- TheOther1, on 10/06/2008, -2/+8Yes.
- jay019, on 10/06/2008, -0/+5Read the source luke!
saadkamal, on 10/05/2008, -6/+1Happy bday linux.. make sure you invite microsoft @ your birthday party (to clear up the trash)...
- Vigacmoe, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2microsoft can only mess around
xB4R7x, on 10/06/2008, -1/+3I like turtles.
jehikapi, on 10/06/2008, -1/+0neat, linux has the same birthday as me! but i'm older!
- arjie, on 10/06/2008, -1/+1Umm, Happy Birthday!!! :)
  
  Go out and enjoy yourself instead of sitting on digg. You'll love yourself more.
rajugurusamy, on 10/06/2008, -0/+4Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? :)
taalipas, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1it seems wrong becaz that date was 25 Aug 1991...!
believe me friends...
plz c : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
mariuz, on 10/06/2008, -0/+2you can try and compile kernel 0.0.1 on ubuntu

here is more info about dusting off the linux 0.0.1

http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html

also here are my results on compiling the kernel 0.0.1 on ubuntu hardy

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/09/linux-0.html
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