20 Years Linux

Hari ini adalah hari yang sangat istimewa untuk Linux, karena justru 20 tahun yang lalu pada hari ini Linus Torvalds duduk sambil online di milis pengguna Minix, UseNet newsgroup ‘comp.os.minix‘ – a UNIX Operating System.
Untuk berbagi “Hobi” yang sedang dia sukai ketika itu, yaitu tentang Sistem Operasi komputer.
Berikut adalah isi postingan dia di milis tersebut:

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 (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have .
—Linus Torvalds