With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

It is widely used not only as a free general-purpose OS but also as an OS for supercomputersLinuxIt is said to be the most successful masterpiece as open source software. Be the creator of that ...

Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. it began, Do you pine for the nice days of ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds says he has three anniversaries, not one, when it comes to marking the creation of the kernel that is now used all around the world. August 25, 1991, was the date on which ...