Tux is 10! (28.08.2001 - 10:10 Uhr)

On 25 August 1991 at 20:57, members of the Usenet newsgroup "comp.os.minix" found a message from a certain Linus Benedict Torvalds in their forum. The then 21-year-old student from Finland announced that he was writing a free operating system. No one - least of all Linus Torvalds himself - would have thought that this hobby project would become one of the most important operating systems on the computer market in the following ten years. Today, 27 per cent of network computers already run Linux, the growth rates are astonishing and are making life difficult for Microsoft. Especially the growing market of "information appliances" (set-top boxes, PDAs, etc.) could ensure further spread. There is also a 68k version of Linux for the Atari. Happy Birthday, Tux! (tr)

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