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Linux Turns 17 Today

Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/0027213&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/0027213"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/0027213&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_DCtPYyU9daO28xmZLQ8Hpz5oK0/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_DCtPYyU9daO28xmZLQ8Hpz5oK0/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/tYjvELuqsto" height="1" width="1"/>