turned 30 years since the formation of the first publication of the Linux kernel. The kernel of 0.01 had a size of 62 KB in a compressed form, included 88 files and contained 10239 rows of the source code. According to Linus Torvalds, it is the moment of the publication of the core 0.01 is the real date of the 30th anniversary of the project. included 88 files and 10239 lines of code.
Linus Posted in the Linux kernel development list:
It’s just a random observation so that people know that today is actually one of the main days of the 30-year anniversary: version 0.01 was loaded on September 17, 1991.
Release 0.01 has never been publicly announced, and I only wrote about it the top ten people in private (and the old email of those days have not been preserved), so there are no real recordings about it. I suspect that the only date information is located in the TAR file Linux-0.01.
Alas, the dates in this TAR file are the dates of the last changes, and not the actual creation of the TAR file, but it seems that it happened at about 19:30 (at Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was technically several hours ago
thought it was worth mentioning this because, despite the undelated, in many ways it is a real date of the 30th anniversary of the actual code.