Happy 20th birthday Linux (Tux)

It seems time flies. You’ve come a long way, Tux the Penguin. I just can't believe it went so fast that I still vividly remember that day I logged online using back then called the (BB) bulletin Board at the Binghamton University Watson's computer center chatting with friends, mid of 1992, about new OS called MINIX then later on was called Linux. It was the earliest discussion about possibility of having FREE and OPEN operating system (it was talk of the campus at some universities- computer science students and teachers). Back then it was something. I was amazed and exited. I hooked on with the second and follow by many releases, but the first distro was of Slackware...

Yes it is time to celebrate the historical event. The Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of the famous FOSS operating system, Linux — or GNU-slash-Linux, depending on how hard-line a fossie you’re talking to — with a slew of special events, both online and IRL.

Today Linux is literally everywhere: in your phone, at your ATM, in your TV, on your desktop, at the movies, in your car, your house, and other gadgets.

The foundation marks the summer of 1991 as the time when Linus Torvalds made a bold decision to share his operating system with the world. Torvalds soon licensed that first Linux OS under the General Public License and indeed nothing in computing has been the same since. HAPPY Birthday, Tux, and many thanks to Linus Torvalds who started it all.

So I wish all happy computing and long live the Openness of Open Source software around the world.