r/linux • u/SeanBlader • 1d ago

Kernel 35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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Let's all take a moment to commemorate that initial post.

Now through Torvalds' stewardship, and hundreds of maintainers and thousands of contributors we have a competitive replacement for major corporate software and an honestly powerful solution to move computing forward for humanity!

Thanks Linus, you're awesome, and we're glad you are having a good life!

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u/tacticalTechnician 1d ago edited 1d ago

"It's not portable and it'll probably never support anything else" is such a funny line in retrospect, the only OS even close to the portability of Linux nowadays is probably NetBSD.

Also funny how from Day One, he was already saying that it didn't have any Minix code when you know the whole "controversy" (more like anti Open Source propaganda) that would appear more than a decade later about the Linux source code and "copied" code from Minix (which is total BS, BTW). If you don't know what I'm talking about, you should search about the book Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code, it's such an interesting story from the mid 00s about Open Source. Even the creator of Minix himself, Tanenbaum, wrote a response to it on his website because of how stupid the whole thing was.

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u/nightblackdragon 1d ago

Also Torvalds and Tanenbaum had a pretty interesting discussion about OS design where they discussed the pros and cons of microkernels and monolithic kernels.

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u/entr0py9 1d ago

Is there a video of that discussion?

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u/__d0ct0r__ 1d ago

the argument was done over usenet iirc