[Gllug] 10th Birthday party

[Mark Preston]

At this rate Linux will have more birthdays than the Queen!

According to the book "rebel code" by Glyn Moody page 41, a person called 
Ari Lemmke created the /pub/os/linux directory on an internet server at
Helsinki University (date unspecified). Linus didn't want to call his
"hobby" Linux at this stage. When Linus posted the message to  comp.os.minix on
25th August 1991 he had not at that point put any code files into that
directory. After receiving some responses to his posting he uploaded the source
code (Linux 0.01) some time in September, before emailing those who had replied
to his August 25th posting. He did not mention version  0.01 on the
comp.os.minix newsgroup, but announced version 0.02 on October 5th 1991.
Regards from Mark Preston

On 7 Aug 2001, Roger Whittaker wrote:
Subject: Re: [Gllug] 10th Birthday party?
Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk

The well-known message which started like this:

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) [ ... ]

was posted on 25 August 1991.



On 7 Aug 2001, Jon Masters wrote:

> On 06 Aug 2001 10:35:22 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
>
> > No matter - the official 10th Birthday on Linux is being celebrated on
> > the 25th August. It was on that date that Linux first made a post
> > to comp.os.minix (I think - anybody care to confirm?)
>
> However, I thought that the birthday was usually actually celebrated in
> September - something like the 8th? or thereabouts.

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