24 – Happy Birthday Linux

I was too young to have witness this and I had never heard of the internet, e-mails or usenet at that time. But it’s amasing to look once back and see how much technology and connectivity is so much more accessible, and that this simple hobby which was Linux at that time is now everywhere, even in space!

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