{"id":4703,"date":"2014-08-25T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2014-08-25T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:16:58","slug":"happy-birthday-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/10\/Crystal_Clear_app_tux.png\" alt=\"Tux - the Linux kernel mascot\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-275\" \/>The operating system based on the Linux kernel (<em>sometimes also called GNU\/Linux. Ed.<\/em>), in all its myriad forms, is 23 years old today.<\/p>\n<p>It all began with an email by a young Helsinki University student called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Torvalds\">Linus Torvalds<\/a> to the comp.os.minix newsgroup.<\/p>\n<p>Linus&#8217; original email is reproduced below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello everybody out there using minix &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won&#8217;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&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I&#8217;ll get something practical within a few months, and I&#8217;d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won&#8217;t promise I&#8217;ll implement them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)<\/p>\n<p>PS. Yes \u2013 it&#8217;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&#8217;s all I have :-(.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love Linus&#8217; modest assertion that his creation wouldn&#8217;t be big and professional like GNU! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operating system based on the Linux kernel (sometimes also called GNU\/Linux. Ed.), in all its myriad forms, is 23 years old today. It all began with an email by a young Helsinki University student called Linus Torvalds to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. Linus&#8217; original email is reproduced below. Hello everybody out there using minix &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}