CHM Revolution

Date

2000-10

Photographer

Kammerer, Bernd

Copyright Owner

© Associated Press / Bernd Kammerer 2011

Keywords

Linux; Torvalds, Linus

Object ID

500004391

Torvalds described the first version of Linux in his 1991 M.Sc. thesis at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He posted a USENET message saying, “I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional…).” In 2009, some 10 million computers were running Linux.