Re: 30 years since the Linux 0.01 release

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Fri Sep 17 2021 - 16:40:10 EST


On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 01:02:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Congratulations! Here's to 30 more years of Linux! :)

> 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.

Those who want to see what 0.01 looked like can grab it from here:
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/linux-0.01.tar.gz

Congratulations again,
Konstantin