Chapter 1323 The Birth of the Linux Operating System!

It must be said that the old man's strategic vision is still very powerful. In addition, Yang Ming has reminded him in recent years. In Yang Ming's opinion, the old man can leave more things for the country in the future.

Just like the old man mentioned that the technology of lithography has been broken through and has begun military use, but it has not been used in civilian use yet, and the outside world does not know it.

Yang Ming and the old man chatted until late at night.

At this time, the old man still looked very energetic.

Yang Ming was a little sleepy.

"Mr. Yang, you go back and rest first."

Yang Ming left the old man's residence and returned to the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.

. . .

September 30, 1991.

Monday.

The fourth day of Yang Ming's arrival in Yanjing.

In the morning, Yang Ming just woke up, and Lin Xiuzhi came over and said, "Boss, Mr. Huo and others are here."

Huo Yingdong and others are here?

When Yang Ming went out, he really saw Huo Yingdong and his son. In addition, there were Hu Yingxiang, Zheng Yutong and others. They all came to say hello to Yang Ming.

Yang Ming left Huo Yingdong and his son.

"Mr. Huo, how do you feel now?"

"Not bad."

Huo Yingdong occasionally returned to Yanjing Union Hospital for treatment, and it might be because he found out about his condition. The most important thing is that he knew his father had this disease, so his condition is still relatively good now.

However, Mr. Bao is different.

Yang Ming has visited Mr. Bao several times this year, but found that Mr. Bao's health is getting worse and worse.

"That's good."

Wait until Huo Yingdong and his son leave.

In the morning, Yang Ming met other representatives from Hong Kong.

Among them, there was Yang Ming's recognized elder brother, the eldest son of the Dong family.

Yang Ming had lunch with him, and the Dong brothers stayed directly at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.

In the afternoon, Yang Ming met representatives from Haojiang, represented by the He family, the Cui family, and the Ma family. Among them, the He family was the fifth son of the He family, Yang Ming's recognized younger brother.

Yang Ming also had afternoon tea with them, and these people stayed at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.

During this period, Yang Ming also met with some overseas Chinese representatives.

Among them, Xie Guomin and his son from Zhengda Group, and Yingla's second brother Thaksin.

At this time, many products of Empire Group in Siam and even Southeast Asia were handed over to Xie family, Thaksin and others for agency. In recent years, Thaksin's Shinawatra family has developed very rapidly with the support of Empire Group.

Thaksin has not seen his sister Yingla for some time.

Both brothers and sisters are very happy.

That night.

Yang Ming met Wu Guangzhen and his wife.

However, judging from the situation of Wu Guangzhen and his wife, Mr. Bao's condition is probably getting worse again.

"How is your father-in-law's health?"

"It has become much worse recently and he needs to be hospitalized."

Wu Guangzhen came late because of that. However, now he is the representative of Bao's investment in China, and he will come anyway.

"Wait in Xiangjiang, I will go to see Mr. Bao again."

. . .

Rest for a night.

Early the next morning.

When Yang Ming woke up, it was already National Day in 1991.

Yang Ming got up, washed, had a simple breakfast, and then went to attend the National Day ceremony.

In fact, in Yang Ming's opinion, except for special times, other National Days are similar, except for holding celebrations, and then attending state banquets.

After attending, Yang Ming returned to the Oriental Mandarin Hotel.

On that day, many VIPs may be tired.

Early the next morning.

When Yang Ming got up, many VIPs invited to attend the National Day came to say goodbye to Yang Ming.

Including Hong Kong, Macao, and even overseas representatives.

Yang Ming is not going back so soon.

Among them, in addition to the cooperation on the rocket launch base, preliminary negotiations are also required.

On October 4, 1991.

Yang Ming and relevant departments have already discussed cooperation.

Among them, the Empire Aerospace Group will independently select a suitable place in the northwest to build a rocket launch tower.

In other words, Yang Ming's main mission to come to Yanjing to attend the National Day ceremony has been completed.

October 5, 1991.

Afternoon.

Yang Ming went to see Mr. Jiang and the old man again.

On the morning of October 6.

Yang Ming left Yanjing and flew directly back to Hong Kong.

At this time, Yang Ming had just returned to Hong Kong, and he heard something that made him very happy.

The Linux operating system was born.

This was also successfully researched by the Silicon Valley branch and the Hong Kong branch of the Empire Group's related technology companies.

Historically, in the 1980s, the performance of computer hardware continued to improve, and the PC market continued to expand. At that time, the operating systems available for computers were mainly Unix, DOS and MacOS.

Unix was expensive and could not run on PCs; DOS seemed simple, and the source code was strictly kept confidential by software manufacturers; MacOS was an operating system specifically for Apple computers.

At this time, the field of computer science urgently needed a more complete, powerful, cheap and completely open operating system.

Because there were few typical operating systems for teaching, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a professor in the Netherlands at the time, wrote an operating system called MINIX to explain to students the internal working principles of the operating system.

MINIX is very good, but it is just a simple operating system for teaching purposes, not a powerful and practical operating system. However, its biggest advantage is that its source code is open to the public.

Computer students all over the world understand the MINIX operating system running on their computers by studying the MINIX source code. Linus Torvalds, a sophomore student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, is one of them.

Based on the essence of MINIX, Linus wrote his own Linux operating system in 1991, version Linux0.01, which marked the beginning of the Linux era.

He used the core of Unix, removed the complicated core programs, rewrote it into an x86 system suitable for general computers, and put it on the Internet for everyone to download. In 1994, the complete core Version 1.0 was launched. So far, Linux has gradually become a fully functional and stable operating system and is widely used.

However, in this world, this Linux operating system was proposed by Yang Ming from the beginning to the end.

In other words, this operating system and Windows system were first proposed by Yang Ming.

However, the Windows system has long been commercialized.

The Linux operating system is open source, but even so, the patents of these codes belong to the technology branch of the Empire Group.

In other words, compared with the Windows system, the Linux operating system can be provided to the world for free. In fact, it is still very important for the development of the global Internet and software.

"Boss, since this Linux operating system is free for the world, why are you so happy?" Lin Xiuzhi asked curiously.

"Sometimes free is the most expensive. In fact, for me, although it can be used by global companies for free, it is still very beneficial to promote the development of the global Internet and global software to a certain extent."