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Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old (lemmy.ml)
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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 🤍

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[-] aggelalex@lemmy.world 205 points 11 months 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 89 points 11 months ago

*protable

[-] indepndnt@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months 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 2 points 11 months ago

TIL Linus B. Torvalds is anti-table

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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.

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