Part IIntroducing Linux
In 1991, University of Helsinki student Linus Benedict Torvalds was working in an operating system called Minix. Minix (from “mini-Unix”) is a Unix-like operating system that was designed to be used in educational environments. While Linus liked many features of Minix, he found it lacking overall. So, on August 25, 1991, he made the following post online:
“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 (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) ...
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