Happy 17th Birthday Linux

On 17 September 1991 Linus Torvalds was announcing the first version of Linux 0.0.1. The rest is history.

Here's what Linus said at the time:

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 (torvalds@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 :-(.

Never support anything other than 386's and AT harddisks - hardly! Now it runs the major IT backbones all over the world. One man truly can change the world, if the idea is right and the community agrees.

Thanks Linus, and thanks to the incredible number of programmers over the years that have given us a truly great operating system!