Torvalds, heroe de los ultimos 60 años

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La revista Time ha publicado en su ultima edicion un reportaje sobre lo que ellos consideran que son los heroes de los 60 ultimos años. A nombres como los Beatles, Picasso o Mandela se suma alguien sorprendente: Linus Torvalds.

Podeis verlo aqui:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2006/torvalds.html

Este es el mensaje que dio comienzo a la era Linux, un mensaje enviado por Torvalds al grupo de noticias de comp.os.minix:

From: [email protected] (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: <[email protected]>
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 ([email protected])
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 :-(.

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