A picture of Linus Torvalds with the caption "Creating his own Unix-like operating system because commercial Unix was too expensive for him." In 1991, Torvalds was studying UNIX at university and using Minix, but he felt he could create something better.

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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 12:17:23 JST nixCraft 🐧

In 1991, Linus Torvalds was studying UNIX at university, where he was using a special educational, experimental purpose operating system called Minix. However, Minix had its limitations, and Linus felt he could create something better.

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