Linux fête ses 13 ans… Joyeux anniversaire !

C'est hier que le système d'exploitation libre Linux a bouclé sa 13ème année d'existence. La date de naissance du système conçu par Linus Torvald a en effet été choisie comme étant le 25 août 1991, le jour de l'envoi du message suivant sur un newsgroup:

From: t******[email protected] (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1*******************[email protected]>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (t******[email protected])

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Ce fut le début du développement du noyau, que de chemin parcouru depuis… Qui l'aurait cru.

Tux, le symbole de Linux