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Ibiblio designates September as Linux Month

Ibiblio designates September as Linux Month

Posted Sep 1, 2004 5:31 UTC (Wed) by hingo (guest, #14792)
Parent article: Ibiblio designates September as Linux Month

2004-1991 = 13 ???

Anyway, I've always tought that the birthday of Linux is August 25th, based on this message:

> From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (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: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
> 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...


...but it's true that 0.01 came out in September.


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