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submitted 1 year ago by DeaDSouL@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aka PATA or IDE hard disks. Basically consumer grade kit.

The statement that the kernel would only ever handle IDE was basically a confession that this would never be a product suitable for enterprise or professional use where SCSI was the typical interface.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it's actually not suitable for professional use. That'd be an understatement, it's damn perfect for literally everything!

[-] ciko22i3@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

except running solidworks 🥲

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago
[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

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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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