慶祝 Linux 24 歲生日！

今天是 Linux 的 24 歲生日。

在 1991 年 4月，芬蘭的赫爾辛基大學年僅 21 歲的學生 Linus Torvalds 開始做一個他自己的操作系統。在 24 年前的今天，即 1991年8月25日，他在 usenet 的 comp.os.minix 新聞組中發布了 Linux 的第一個公告，宣布了 Linux 的誕生。以下是當年 Torvalds 寫的郵件：

    Path: gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds
    From: torv...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
    Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
    Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
    Summary: small poll for my new operating system
    Keywords: 386, preferences
    Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
    Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
    Organization: University of Helsinki
    Lines: 20
    Hello everybody out there using minix -
    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
    professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
    since april, and is starting to get ready.  I'd like any feedback on
    things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
    (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
    among other things). 
    I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. 
    This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
    I'd like to know what features most people would want.  Any suggestions
    are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
            Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
    PS.  Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. 
    It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
    will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. 

在該年的九月， Linux Kernel 0.01 發布到了芬蘭大學和研究網（FUNET） 上的一個 FTP 服務器（ftp.funet.fi）。當時僅有 10239 行代碼。到了十月，又發布了 0.02。