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'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax
It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same.
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In 1991, Finnish graduate student Linus Benedict Torvalds posted to the Usenet group comp.os.minix that he was developing a free operating system as a hobby for 386/486 AT clones, noting it wouldn’t be as big or professional as GNU. This announcement, made on August 25, marked the initial public reveal of what would become the Linux kernel.
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