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Linux, Linus and the personal OS that never really caught on

Mike August 25, 2025

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On This Day In 1991, 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds wrote a newsgroup post about a free operating system he was working on.

He said it was “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu.” His OS would eventually be called Linux.

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