August 25, 1991, it was released to the world as a "hobby" ...
Slide deck by e-Week showing the evolution of the Linux kernel from 1991 (10K lines of code) to 2016 (22M lines of code) http://bit.ly/2bfvxxA
Today, it is everywhere, from the smallest device to the biggest mainframe and beyond the boundaries of our planet.
Linus Torvalds and *all* the contributors to Linux - what a legacy you have created and what a wonderful gift you have given to human kind!
Hats off to all.
-- Arun Khan