If you’re a Linux fan, then you should know that this week is a very special one. On August 25, 1991 – 25 years ago – Linus Torvalds shot out a simple message to a Minix usergroup which stated that he was working on a Minix replacement. Within, he famously said that his creation wouldn’t “be big and professional like GNU”.

Not even Linus

Source: Hot Hardware – Linux Celebrates Its 25th Birthday This Week