The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[Richard Ibbotson]

Hi

Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester 
Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc 
was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was in touch 
with Linus a lot of the time...

http://people.man.ac.uk/~zlsiial/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCC_Interim_Linux

I helped Owen and some other people to start ManLUG which is still 
running today. www.manlug.org. The rest is history. Over the years 
I've spent many happy hours flying around the world promoting GNU/Linux 
by writing for magazines.

It's been fun :)

-- 
Richard
www.sheflug.org.uk

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