On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:39 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > To my knowledge the Linux kernel was released to the public 30 years ago > > around this time. My dear friend swears by it and will never go back to > > Windows even though WIN 11 is much more secure than previous Windows > > versions. Prior to Linux there were other much-earlier operating systems > > for 8-bit and 16-bit machines we classic computer users could use. For > > emulators now we have a choice but do they work better in Linux or > > Windows? Murray 🙂 > > > > Assembly version August 25th 1991. - comp.os.minix newsgroup. > C version October 5th 1991 - Linux Bible 8th edition.
First release September 17th 1991 - Linus Torvalds a few days ago http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2109.2/03485.html I've been using it since 9/17/1992 +/- a few days. Jim
