DeaDSouL@lemmy.ml to

Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old

cross-posted to:
linux@lemmy.helvetet.eu

1.93K

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old

DeaDSouL@lemmy.ml to

Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

cross-posted to:
linux@lemmy.helvetet.eu

Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

Chat

aggelalex@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
arrow-up
206·
1 year ago

It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.

Famous last words
- wmassingham@lemmy.world
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  91
  arrow-down
  2·
  1 year ago
  *protable
  - indepndnt@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7·
    1 year ago
    Imagine making a typo and it continually being shared and highlighted for over 30 years.
    
    Kinda makes me glad I’ll never be famous for anything.
  - ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2·
    1 year ago
    TIL Linus B. Torvalds is anti-table

Linux@lemmy.ml

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !linux@lemmy.ml

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

989 users / day
3.67K users / week
6.67K users / month
18.5K users / 6 months
65 local subscribers
48.7K subscribers
6.73K Posts
182K Comments
Modlog