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 🤍

  • Aatube@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    We do in fact not have much control over non-free software especially when they have a monopoly and exclusive features.

    There is a(n) (unofficial) version of Linux that strips away all the non-free blobs. So we do have a completely free OS. Not to mention BSD.

    We get market share by being more free, not by making ruinous compromises.

    Tell that to Windows.

    • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The control we should have was taken away from us. Though efforts like RISC-V and Asahi Linux are both examples of purposefully regaining control.

      Linux-libre or Linux-gnu is the official de-blobbed linux kernel of the GNU project. However, Linux-libre is an ongoing project that needs to overcome microcode and blobs as does Hurd. The linux kernel itself is free software, but is often built or packaged with nonfree blobs.

      Windows has continually added anti-features, jails, and other injustices. They are a subgroup of the microsoft corporation, which spends millions upon millions in legally gray practices to spread their nonfree software.

      Windows gets users by capturing them.

      • Aatube@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I agree with the first part. By unofficial I meant not from the Linux maintainers.

        Yes, but in the end, Windows still has all that market share.