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1108 On an August evening in 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet newsgroup apologising that his hobby operating system was ‘just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu’ — and the kernel he was building now runs roughly 90 percent of the world’s cloud servers and every Android phone

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/23/2026 07:10 EDT

On an August evening in 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet newsgroup apologising that his hobby operating system was ‘just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu’ — and the kernel he was building now runs roughly 90 percent of the world’s cloud servers and every Android phone

On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student posted a Usenet message apologising that his hobby operating system would "never be big and professional." The kernel he attached now runs roughly 90 percent of the world's cloud servers and every Android phone on Earth.

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