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Linus Torvalds creador de Linux

Hace 19 años, el 25 de agosto de 1991, un estudiante finlandés llamado Linus Torvalds envió el siguiente mensaje al grupo comp.os.minix de Usenet:

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@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-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, andI'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 protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's
all I have :-(.

Seguramente en ese momento Linus no tenía idea de la importancia de su creación, después de todo, se equivocó, Linux si es protable (en su mensaje se equivocó al escribir portable) y soporta "algo más" que Discos Duros AT.

Comencemos pues la cuenta regresiva hacia los 20 años de Linux... y los 10 del GULEV :) ambos en 2011.