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Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act (www.theregister.com)

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If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." We know that the "hobby" operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.

Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person's project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I'd been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I'd ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.

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[–] Romulon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

With your definition of PC, "which is 'personal' meaning that you control it fully" I wouldn't consider a computer running Windows to be a PC.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Even when it's running Windows, you're free to install Linux whenever you want. When that's no longer true is when it stops being a PC imo

[–] freeman@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

yea, not any more really. but its not a clear line at all lom