Linus Announces His New Operating System

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-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and 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 would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi- threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

This is a screenshot of Linus Torvalds’s historic 1991 announcement that he was developing a free operating system as a hobby. The joke comes from the enormous understatement: the project he describes as casual and limited became Linux, one of the most important operating systems in history. It is shared as a reaction to humble beginnings, accidental success, or wildly underestimating a project’s future impact.

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