17 September 1991. Today Is The Day....

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30 years since the Linux 0.01 release From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri Sep 17 2021 - 16:03:20 EST This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17, 1991. Now, that 0.01 release was never publicly announced, and I only emailed a handful of people in private about the upload (and I don't have old emails from those days), so there's no real record of that. The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I suspect. Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates, not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was technically a couple of hours ago. Just thought I'd mention it, since while unannounced, in many ways this is the true 30th anniversary date of the actual code. Linus

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