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On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And he immediately got flamed for it (/s)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

This is the way

[–] Graphine 10 points 2 years ago

And now hardly anyone uses microkernels, hilariously.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The husband of a woman I worked with was going abroad to study with Tannenbaum. I said, "That's the guy who hated Linux!" She had no idea what I was talking about, but it was good for a chuckle for me.