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09-25-2015, 02:00 PM
Twenty-four years ago this month, a Finnish developer with a sharp tongue who’s regarded by some as one of the most influential programmers alive today released version 0.01 of the Linux kernel to the Internet. Creator Linus Torvalds introduced it by posting a message in the days before its release to a Usenet newsgroup that famously began: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu).” Since then, the code base has of course expanded — -from 10,000+ lines of code to millions — and it helps power everything from TVs to tablets to smartphones, routers and more. Linux serves as the basis for the Android OS, and even Microsoft — once so
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