IDG Contributor Network: Linus Torvalds says first Linux release wasn't public

Keeping up with tradition, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and Dirk Hohndel, vice president and chief of open source at VMware, sat down to talk about Linux at LinuxCon NA. Here is an edited version of the conversation, in which they talked about the email Torvalds sent out 25 years ago to announce Linux.What's the right date?Linux celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on August 25, but there is some confusion. "What is the correct date to celebrate? Is it really August twenty-fift