Linux at 35: From a student's Usenet post to the backbone of the digital age
On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a free operating system he was building as a personal project. That system, later named Linux, now runs the vast majority of web servers, cloud platforms, supercomputers, and Android devices. Torvalds had briefly considered calling it 'Freax' before settling on the name Linux.
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