Linus Torvalds Reflects on 25 Years of Linux

Posted by bob on Aug 24, 2016 10:47 PM EDT
Linux.com - Original Content; By Libby Clark
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When Linus Torvalds first announced his new operating system, Linux, on Aug. 25, 1991, it was a "completely personal project,” Torvalds said at LinuxCon today. The kernel totaled 10,000 lines of code that would only run on the same type of hard disk Torvalds himself used because the geometry of the hard disk was hard-coded into the source code. And, he expected only other students to be interested in studying it as a theory.

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