The Linux kernel is 28 years old
On August 25, 1991, after five months of development, 21-year-old student Linus Torvalds announced on the comp.os.minix teleconference that a working prototype of the new Linux operating system had been completed, porting bash 1.08 and gcc 1.40 had been completed. The first public release of the Linux kernel was introduced on September 17th. The 0.0.1 kernel was 62 KB compressed and contained […]