[ale] Happy Birthday Tux!

[Jim Lynch]

Shortly after that I was given Minix on I think it was 15 floppies.  I 
then checked into the comp.os.minix news group and saw the discussions 
about Linux.  I downloaded H J Liu two disk pair "boot-root" and the 
rest is history.  I never loaded Minux.

Jim.
On 08/25/2011 07:17 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> Submitted from my single booting Ubuntu 10.10 hacked-HP xw4600 running 
> the "2.6.35-30-generic-pae" Linux Kernel.
>
> Anyone remember this message?
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> From:torvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI <mailto:torvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI> 
> (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
> Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
> Summary: small poll for my new operating system
> Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541 at klaava.Helsinki.FI
> 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-sytem
> due to practical reasons)among other things.
>
> I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.
> This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, 
> and I'd
> like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,
> but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
>
> Linus Torvalds torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi 
> <mailto:torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi>
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> HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUX!
>
> Thanks Linus and many happy returns!!
>
> Rich in Lilburn
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