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Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be

October 10, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 1 year, 1 month ago

On October 5, 1991, the young man who would one day become the world's most famous programmer - and the brand name and poster boy for the open source software movement - sent a message to a newsgroup announcing the birth of what would become the Linux operating system.

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