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Linux in the Lab
Mixing computational power with a raw hacker's edge, the open-source operating system gains ground
The Scientist 2004, 18(21):24
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On August 25, 1991, a student named Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki posted an innocuous message to an Internet bulletin board. "Hello everybody out there using minix," he wrote on the comp.os.minix newsgroup. "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." Minix was a commercial UNIX product, and Torvalds, who was building a free variant of it, was taking feature requests.
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