Den unge finske universitetsstuderende Linus Torvalds var tilbage i 1991 ikke tilfreds med den MS-DOS der fulgte med hans nye i386 PC. Det blev fors\u00f8gt fikset ved at indk\u00f8be en Minix, der var en klar forbedring – men stadig ikke helt nok. For eksempel var terminal emulatoren elendig, som den unge mand ellers gerne ville benytte til at k\u00f8re mere kr\u00e6vende jobs hjemmefra, p\u00e5 universitetes mainframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Som et sommerferie projekt begyndte han at udvikle en hardware n\u00e6r terminalemulator, med mulighed for at k\u00f8re flere samtidige sessioner. Slutproduktet mindede mere om et selvst\u00e6ndigt styresystem end en terminalemulator, hvilket fik ham til at udvide funktionaliteten en tand mere og udsendte f\u00f8lgende legendariske annoncering, den 25 august 1991 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki.<\/p>Hello everybody out there using minix-<\/p>
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-sytem
due to practical reasons)among other things.<\/p>I’ve currently ported bash (1.08) an 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 want. Any suggestions are welcome,
but I won’t promise I’ll implement them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Da det netop var p\u00e5 denne dag at katten blev sluppet ud af s\u00e6kken, regnes 25 August for at v\u00e6re Linux f\u00f8dselsdag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I det n\u00e6ste indl\u00e6g lukker han s\u00e5 katten ud af d\u00f8ren og delvist lader dyret f\u00e5 sit eget liv. Dette viser sig hurtigt i l\u00f8bet af kort tid, at blive en afg\u00f8rende faktor for Linux videre liv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
Message-ID: 1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI<\/a>
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki<\/p>Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I’m working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it’s even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I’ve successfully
run bash\/gcc\/gnu-make\/gnu-sed\/compress etc under it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nLinus Thorvalds havde selv navngivet det “Freax”. Da Ari Lemke skulle navngive det bibliotek, der skulle indholde Freax kildekode p\u00e5 nic.funet.fi, gav han det dog navnet “Linux” – det syntes han l\u00f8d bedre og det havde han ganske ret i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her i 2014 er Linux det mest betydende styresystem p\u00e5 kloden, hverken mere eller mindre. St\u00f8rstedelen af verdens internet-servere er Linux-baseret og dermed er det ligeledes Linux der holder Internettet i live. En meget stor del af verdens indlejrede enheder, s\u00e5som harddisk-optageren fra YouSee, st\u00f8rstedelen af verdens supercomputere og ikke mindst langt st\u00f8rstedelen af verdens smartphones er basalt set Linux drevne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Et stort tillykke til styresystemet der forandrede verden og bragte den fri kildekode ud til selv de mindste afkroge p\u00e5 denne klode og ikke mindst en stor tak til Linus Torvalds for at give kildekoden fri og dermed muligg\u00f8re den Open Source revolution vi har set de sidste par \u00e5rtier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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