Hi composers,
To those of you that don't know it, probably because you don't read /.
[1] or similar, the Linux kernel turns 10 years today [2,3,4].
Note that there seems to be some confusion with the date [2], but that
because some people quote the birthday relative to Helsinki time (GMT
-2). As is clear from the original posting [4] to comp.os.minix, it
was the 25. of August 1991, at 20:57:08 GMT (which makes it 2:52
minutes before midnight in Helsinki - remember daylight saving).
I think this is worth a "Happy Birthday" (even from you non-believers,
and we do have a few of those!), since the GNU/Linux OS is the main
workhorse for all of us.
*
/\ ########## Tux with a party hat on,
(o_ |||||||||| and a birthday cake with
//\ +----------+ 10 candles.
V_/_ |__________|
Yours,
Christian Holm Christensen -------------------------------------------
Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91
DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23
Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305
Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm
[1] http://www.slashdot.org
[2] http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/24/152259.shtml
[3] http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html
[4] http://lwn.net/2001/0823/
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