Le 25 aout, le jour où Linus Torvalds a envoyé le message suivant :
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI ( Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: < 1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I´m doing a ( free) operating system ( just a hobby, won´t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I´d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
( same physical layout of the file-system ( due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I´ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I´ll get something practical within a few months, and
I´d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won´t promise I´ll implement them 
Linus ( torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it´s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable ( uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that´s all I have
.