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I'm the webmaster of Bangsamoro.com - a flagship website of Young Moro Professionals Network, Inc. (YMPN) and also webmaster/maintainer of Morofocus.com - The Bangsamoro Documentation Project.

A Historical Look At The First Linux Kernel

Published by Jun | Filed under Linux

KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel “Freax,” and in his first announcement noted, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, “simply, I’d say that porting is impossible.” Humble beginnings.

August 4th, 2007


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