TORONTO -- It's been twenty-five years since Linux began. Today, we're living in a world where Microsoft has embraced Linux and everything -- and I mean everything -- depends on Linux. It didn't start that way. It began as a small project without any great ambition
In a series of interviews, Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, and I talked about Linux's origins.
SJVN: What's Linux real birthday? You're the proud papa, when do you think it was? When you sent out the newsgroup post to the Minix newsgroup on August 25, 1991? When you sent out the 0.01 release to a few friends?
LT: I think both of them are valid birthdays.
The first newsgroup post is more public (August 25), and you can find it with headers giving date and time and everything. In contrast, I don't think the 0.01 release was ever announced in any public setting (only in private to a few people who had shown interest, and I don't think any of those emails survive). These days the way to find the 0.01 date (September 17) is to go and look at the dates of the files in the tar-file that still remains.
So, both of them work for me. Or either.
And, by the way, some people will argue for yet other days. For example, the earliest public semi-mention of Linux was July 3: that was the first time I asked for some POSIX docs publicly on the minix newsgroup and mentioned I was working on a project (but didn't name it). And at the other end, October 5 was the first time I actually publicly announced a Linux version: "version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already)".
source - https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-on-linuxs-25th-birthday/
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