¡Felices 19 años Linux!
Un día como hoy pero hace 19 años atrás Linus Torvalds revelaba que desde hacía unos meses estaba trabajando en el desarrollo de un sistema operativo libre y sólo como hobbie. De hecho, según sus palabras, su sistema no sería grande ni profesional como GNU; que equivocado estaba en aquel momento.
La fecha se discute muchas veces, debido a que existen tres mensajes claros en grupos de noticias escritos por Linus que hacen referencia al proyecto. Sin embargo, por convención decidió tomarse el 25 de agosto de 1991 como fecha, debido a que ese día fue la primera vez que Linus mencionó de qué se trataba el proyecto en el que estaba trabajando.
Para los curiosos dejo debajo el texto de los tres mensajes en cuestión, en idioma inglés, tal como los escirbió Linus en su momento.
Primer mensaje
From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroup: comp.os.minix Subject: GCC-1.40 and a posix question Message-ID: 1991Jul13, 100050.9886@klaava.Helsinki.FI Date: 3 Jul 91 10:00:50 GMT Hello netlanders, Due a project I'm working on (in minix), I'm interested in the posix standard definition. Could somebody please point me to a (preferably) machine-readable format of the latest posix rules? Ftp-sites would be nice. Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi
Segundo mensaje
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. Hello everybody out there using minix- 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. 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 :-) Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi
Tercer mensaje
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> Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki 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 :-) 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.
