Happy Birthday Linux! 34 Years of Open-Source Power

August 25, 2025, marks the 34th anniversary of Linux, a project that began as a modest hobby and has grown into the bedrock of modern digital infrastructure.

On this day in 1991, 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Torvalds posted to the comp.os.minix newsgroup: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”

Little did he know that his experiment would spark a global revolution in software development and collaboration.

From Humble Beginnings to Global Domination

The first Linux release, version 0.01, shipped in September 1991 with just 10,239 lines of code. Today, the Linux kernel boasts over 34 million lines of code, thanks to contributions from more than 25,000 developers worldwide.

On average, 10,000 lines of new code are added daily, making Linux one of the most actively developed operating systems ...