Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, which means I've been a part of this publication for almost 14 years. Where does the time go?

You ever see an injustice in the world—one so strong, so overwhelming—that, try as you might, you just can't ignore it? A crime that dominates your consciousness beyond all others? That drives you, even in the face of certain defeat, to action? Mine is...Linux. Not the existence of Linux. Linux is amazing. Linux powers the world. Linux is, as the kids say, totally tubular. It's the name. It's the name that makes me Hulk out. Specifically, it's that confounded "X". It just plain should not be there.