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diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/linux.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/linux.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fac7de5..0000000 --- a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/linux.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -With Dell now offering it pre-installed and most of your favorite sites powered by it, it's easy to forget that Linux as we know it is less than thirteen years old. - -In September of 1991 Linus Torvalds e-mailed the comp.os.minix Usenet group to say: "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." - -Kernel Trap recently had a [nice overview of Linus' early thoughts on the kernel][1] and its development, some of which become quite funny in light of the actual development of Linux. - -Originally Linus didn't think the kernel would port from the original 32-bit i386 chip architecture. And while that is the way Linux 1.0 shipped, by the time 1.2 arrived just under a year later, it had already been ported to 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit SPARC, and the 64-bit Alpha. - -Linus was also pretty adamant that Linux was nothing more than a hobby and probably wouldn't impress many people. - -Of course a quick push of the fast-forward button and you get to today where consumer-friendly distributions of Linux are shipping pre-installed on Dell machines. - -A crazy condensed history to give you a little perspective on a monday morning. - -[1]: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002
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