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Source: https://www.linuxmi.com/linux-happy-30th-birthday.html
Thirty years ago, on August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish university student named Linus Torvalds sat at his desk and informed the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he was working on an operating system as a “hobby.”Some FOSS enthusiasts believe that the first public release of the (prototype) code on October 5, 1991, is more deserving of being the true anniversary of the kernel.Others, including myself, consider today, August 25, as the “birth” date of the project.He reminded us that the “hobby OS” would not be “big” or “professional”…Hello everyone, please use minix –for 386 (486) AT clones, I am doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, it won’t be as big and professional as GNU). This has been brewing since April and is starting to take shape. I would like to get any feedback on what people like/dislike about minix, as my operating system is somewhat similar (the physical layout of the file system is the same (for practical reasons) among other things).Thirty years later, it turns out that Linux is no longer “just a hobby”; it is actually everywhere around us. Even if you do not use Linux, you may still be using it. But if you do use Linux, that’s even better!From Android smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, smart refrigerators, large-screen TVs to airplanes, satellites, and Google search engines, almost all smart things around us are powered by Linux.The entire internet is driven by Linux, and 99.9% of the websites you visit daily are hosted on Linux-powered servers. Linux even powers the world’s top 500 supercomputers.