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Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

by Rob Gibbon ubuntu.com published 2021-08-25

Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts…

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