Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Sep 2021 09:37:30 +0530 | From | Bhaskar Chowdhury <> | Subject | Re: 30 years since the Linux 0.01 release |
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On 13:02 Fri 17 Sep 2021, Linus Torvalds wrote: >This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually >one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17, >1991. > >Now, that 0.01 release was never publicly announced, and I only >emailed a handful of people in private about the upload (and I don't >have old emails from those days), so there's no real record of that. >The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I >suspect. > >Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates, >not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have >happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was >technically a couple of hours ago. > >Just thought I'd mention it, since while unannounced, in many ways >this is the true 30th anniversary date of the actual code. > > Linus
Cool ! Thanks a bunch!
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