Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24
"It has been 24 long years since the first ever release of the Linux project on August 25, 1991, which is the core component of any GNU/Linux distribution. With this occasion we want to remind everyone that Linux is everywhere, even if you don't see it. You use Linux when you search on Google, when you use your phone, when buy metro tickets, actually the whole Internet is powered by Linux. Happy Birthday, Linux!" -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/08/25/1333201 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:21:42 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"It has been 24 long years since the first ever release of the Linux project ..."
Interesting to note how portable Linux became from early on. As I recall from an online account somewhere, in 1994 DEC sent an Alpha workstation to Linus with a request for him to port Linux to it. Which he got working by about the following year. So Linux went 64-bit at the same time as it went portable. The only other operating systems that ran in full 64-bit mode on Alpha were the ones created by DEC. A few more notes on the portability of (earlier versions of) Linux here <http://www.makelinux.net/books/lkd2/ch19lev1sec1>. If you want dates for those version numbers, try here <http://butnotyet.tumblr.com/post/89312148/timeline-of-linux-kernel-releases>.
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