Linux, Sort Of
On Dec. 28, 1969, Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux operating system, was born in Helsinki, Finland. In 1991, Torvalds began what eventually became the development of the Linux kernel, announcing it in a note he posted on Aug. 25, 1991, on a Usenet newsgroup "comp.os.minix." Today, he is the Linux project's coordinator and "tux," pictured, is its mascot.