Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of the Linux Kernel

Exactly 28 years ago today, a 21-year-old student named Linus Torvalds made a fateful announcement on the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix. i-Programmer commemorates today’s anniversary with some interesting trivia: Back in 1991 the fledgling operating system didn’t have a name, according to Joey Sneddon’s 27 Interesting Facts about Linux: Linux very nearly wasn’t called Linux! Linus wanted to call his “hobby” project…