35 years ago today, Linus Torvalds made a Usenet post that introduced Linux to the world
A humble beginning for a huge revolution.
Linus Torvalds introduced Linux to the world 35 years ago with a Usenet post. According to XDA Developers, this post marked the beginning of what would become a powerful force in the open-source world.
Torvalds remains in charge of the overall Linux kernel project. The Register and The Register Science report that he recently contributed to the project by fixing a bug in the Linux kernel driver for Intel Xe graphics. The bug, titled "Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM," caused machines to freeze during the boot process.
Torvalds has stated that he has not been a programmer for almost 20 years, but he still contributes to the project occasionally. The bug fix is an exception to this, although it is only a partial exception.
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