A student posts a hobby operating system
Linus Torvalds announced Linux 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional'; combined with GNU and the open-source method, it became the world's infrastructure.
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A student posts a hobby operating system
Linus Torvalds announced Linux 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional'; combined with GNU and the open-source method, it became the world's infrastructure.