Happy 20th Birthday, Linux!

by AJ on August 25, 2011

“Today is a very special day for Linux, for it is precisely 20 years ago on this very day Linus Torvalds sat down at his computer to share word of his ‘hobby’ operating system to users of Minix – a UNIX Operating System – on the UseNet newsgroup ‘comp.os.minix‘.”

The Linux Foundation has produced the following infographic to mark the milestone, showing precisely how far and wide Linux has spread in those intervening years…

via OMG! Ubuntu!

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