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genixia noted that the BBC was the first to note that
Linux has turned 10 today. Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.
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Happy birthday
first post for linux! probably too late for that , but it's been fun learning about unix through linux about 4 years ago and I use it at home and at work. always stable, has NEVER crashed on me, and cool desktops like KDE and GNOME.. what more do you need? congrats linus.
"I keep looking in the want-ads under 'revolutionary' but there don't seem to be any listings.. "
Soon it will be puberty...
Je t'aime Stéphanie
Can one speculate how far we will have reached
in 10 years ?
Congrats and happy birthday to Linux's team
Happy birthday Linux!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to Linus and all of us who have ever debugged a kernel module until 2:00 in the morning!
Okay mods, go ahead and mod me down. Don't care. Had to join in the celebration!!!
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
What Linux wants for it's birthday ... maybe for the school (M$) bully to stop beating it up.
giggles
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
That olive crown is the best part of the article. Long live the Caesar!!!
It's been a wild ride so far.
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." -Steve Wozniak
Wow ... A 10 year old programmed that whole kernel by himself? ... oh wait, maybe I should reread that ...
I got my first skateboard
if common sense was common, wouldn't everyone have it?
that was a lame attemp for a joke
who of you guys has the oldest running linux machine?
Unfortunatly I'm out - I just dropped my old 200Meg Drive on the floor in an accident some time ago...
Note to myself: never drink to much while close to precious equipment..
Must you post?
" ...whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs"
...
You can get medication for that you know
So linux is 10 years old. Congrats. Wouldn't have happened without.... well congrats to everyone here! But seriously, what more can be said? It had to be noted yes, but surely with someother kind of review of the 10 years or something a bit more than BBC news...
Great, now we can lump it in with MS-DOS and Win 3.x
didnt windows 95 come out 6 years ago today?
Nice ot see something good that didn't die after all that time. 10 years in computer history is a big milestone, and the most positive aspect is linux isn't dying. Wish I could have celebrated the same with my amiga, but after its 10th birday, while the community was stile alive and kicking, the rest looked more like a skunk that got hit while crossing a road :(.
:) !
Ok ok let's not get nostalgic here heh, happy birthday to all of you guys, coders users and abusers
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
or as they say in your homeland ... "Onnellinen syntymäpäivä!"
Linux World Expo is next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco!
;)
It's pretty cool to see how far Linux has actually come since the 'ol days. Maybe one day we'll finally settle this whole Gnome vs KDE stuff once and for all....
Speaking of parties..don't forget this party to raise funds for Dimitry's legal defense.
Great news... long live Linux :)
Way to go... rip off Cliff Yablonski without even crediting the cranky bastard..
The next ten years will only get better!!
and..Thanks to all involved for a great OS!
"The Most Fun Possible on 4 wheels" is at SunBuggy in Las Vegas
Tomorrow, August 25 (or September 17, whatever you prefer) is the correct date, even the BBC article says so.. *sigh*
I thought Linux's birthday was actually September 17th. I don't remember the source, but I thought it was cool that my birthday was the same day as Linux's birthday.
-Karl
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
^^^^^^^^^
In a way, this is kind of sad. I mean Linux is 10 years old, put together by a bunch of people who aren't all that interested in being the next Bill Gates, and it's one of the most stable and reliable OSs out there.
It really makes you think - for years, many of us were taught in school that non-capatalist approaches result in poor quality at a very high price.
But at least in this one case, it seems that just the opposite is true: after 20+ years of development, MacOS and Windows and many others, funded by billions of dollars, are just starting to get the stability of Linux. And sadly, this stability is at the expense of flexibility. And with a much higher pricetag. Linux is cheaper, faster, and better. And it isn't even a "product".
This is a testament to the abilities and the desires of those who have worked on Linux over the past decade. The corporate world - you have let us down, and look what we have done. Hold your heads in shame.
Lets all post Happy birthday songs in different languages, I will start with dutch
Lang zal die leven,lang zal die leven, lang zal die leven in de gloria, in de gloria, in de gloria hieperdepiep, HOERA!!!!!!!!
add your own additions yourself
Sig you!
Ok, so it was flamebait, but it WAS funny.
So if you are in San Francisco Bay area (native or here for LinuxConf), don't miss the linux10 get together in Sunnyvale (south bay). For more info check out
www.linux10.org
...it'll be able to drink in the U.S.!
Celebrate the finer things in life
Given that Linux is only 10 years old, this proves that the future is very bright and has a very good chance to eventually compete and surpass Microsoft Windows. Windows 1.0 was released in 1985(?), meaning MS has a 6 year head start on the Linux OS. It's fairly obvious that in 6 years, Linux will far surpass what Windows is today.
Happy Birthday Linux!!
Wanna talk about instability? Think about what Windows looked like 10 years ago.
Got Rhinos?
Linux is 10, I am 22, and Windows95 is now 7 years old [released on my BDay].
You can send me gifts, etc, or just a 'sup dog' to spaz@thesuits.com
later
D~y
UMM what's linux?
Happy Birthday to my fine web-footed friend!!!!
http://www.linux10.org/
Linux10 party still has room on the East Coast!! =)
Linux 10th Anniversary Picnic/BBQ August 25th, 2001 from 11:00 to 6:00 Sunnyvale Baylands Park, Sunnyvale, CA, USA Bring the kids!
Mark your calendars! The Linux 10th anniversary picnic/BBQ will be Saturday, August 25, 2001 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
We had to stop taking new RSVPs for Linux10 when the picnic area capacity was reached on Aug 14. However, "Linux10 East Coast" in Philadelphia still has plenty of room. See below for more Linux 10th anniversary events.
Burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, and other picnic foods will be served until 3:30 and are free to all those who RSVP'ed
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
Today also, windows 95 is turning six.
10 years ago was about the time I got my first computer. It was a 386SX/20 that came preloaded with Windows 3.0 (not 3.1!) and MS-DOS. Since then I've gone on to use Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and now XP. In my heart, I would love to use Linux, however it just doesn't have all of the applications that I would like to use. However, it's getting closer. So, I haven't used Linux full time yet. However, with many products becoming more mature that run on Linux, I feel that I may switch to using Linux full time within the next 10 years. I think that when that point in time when the switch is an obvious one for hold-outs like myself, there is going to be exponential growth. For those of you working to make Linux software reach this point.. God speed! I'll see you in 10 years. (maybe sooner)
still infantile
(sorry, couldn't resist)
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? - Joshua (Wargames)
My brother turned 19 today :-P He's born on Linux's birthday (just not the same year).
My slashdot story was rejected.
look here ==> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169297.html
"The new variant, which has initially been dubbed CodeRed.d, is nearly identical to its predecessor except for two minor pieces of code, according to Roger Thompson, head of malicious code research at TruSecure Corp.
The new worm has replaced a fragment of code known as an "atom" that was unique to the earlier version, the string "CodeRedII," with a series of underscore characters. In addition, the byte at offset 07C5 is changed from a 0 to an FF, according to Thompson, who announced the discovery today on a number of security mailing lists.
The minor tweaks in CodeRed.d appear to be a deliberate attempt to evade poorly designed intrusion detection systems or anti-virus software that is merely looking for the "CodeRedII" string, according to Thompson. "
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
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open source is an intellectual property destroyer
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft executive, Feb 2001
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free
- Linus Torvalds
Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
- Jim Dennis
Linux... Find out what you've been missing
while you've been rebooting Windows NT.
- anon
See Linux run...
See Windows run... scared.
- anon
Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck
when it starts manufactoring vaccum cleaners.
- car bumper sticker
I thought that aliens would take over the world,
but I never suspected the Finns.
- garf@roadum.demon.co.uk
How do you power off this machine?
- Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi,
and after using the machine for several months.
The most important design issue...
is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds,
at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux
Open-Source Architecture requires neither Windows nor Gates
- Malcolm Macsween
Linux - What itch do you want to scratch today?
- Ulrik Haugen
With Linux there is no Bill to pay
- Maurice Fonhof
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (possibly not talking about Linux!)
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have
never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.
They'd be a lot more careful about what they said if they had.
- Linus Torvalds
Linux represents a best-of-breed Unix
- Vinod Valloppillil
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
- Usenet signature
Consumers love it
- Vinod Valloppillil
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
Most of the primary apps that people require when they
move to Linux are already available for free. This includes
web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc
- Vinod Valloppillil
Don't throw your PC out of the window,
throw Windows out of your PC and run linux!
- Gernot Kerschbaumer
Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively
more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust
- if not more - than commercial alternatives.
- Vinod Valloppillil
If the box says ``Windows 95 or better'', it should run on Linux, right?
- anon
Linux can win
- Vinod Valloppillil
---|ENDSNIP
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I really and truly do. Thanks for waisting the five seconds of my life it took to read that, and the 10 seconds on my life it took to write this.
Thanks. That story was posted on /. yesterday I think.
The Australian (National daily newspaper) had this story on their site from around noon WST (+0800). In Australia, regional LUGs are doing a nationwide InstallFest to celebrate.
Hmm. From code snippet to the monster it is today.
*SNIFF*
You've come a long way baby! We're a little bit further along the development curve than any Microsoft OS was at the 10 year mark.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
And my system has 11 years uptime!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Why don't all you stingy motherfucks buy us something nice?
/></
Personal me, collaborative you
I loved the pictures that accompanied the article. A smiling Linus and a sneering Gates. Now, just on the basis of that, which OS should you prefer? :-)
Just stand back and watch the OS/2 nostalgics go, they wont be happy about that one! Not ever having run OS/2 id seriously like to know why people like it. i do know that it had a proper network stack before windows3.11 came along, but how did it manage to last so long, IBM only killed it off in the past year or so
OS/2 is that like half an OS?
:P i know old joke sorry, my bad.
joshua:/proc# echo "Happy Birthday" >/proc/kcore
:-)
joshua:/proc#
Doesn't seem to make him pleased...
joshua:/proc# telinit "Happy Birthday"
Usage: telinit 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu
well at least we get an answer
Happy Birthday to you Linux !
Thanks to all who made it possible.
Long live Linux !
in a couple years Tux is gonna start growing hair in strange places and start pursuing other "penguins" :-0
Linux is 10 years old and is still an unusable piece of junk. WTF have you been doing for the past 10 years? Oh and I want to be one of the lame posters that tries to suck Linus' dick as they proclaim how geat linux is. Get a fuckin' life people.
Dear moderators, go ahead waste your mod points on this post. You know I'm right.
At least according to this guy. That claims that "good software takes 10 years". (There was a slashdot story on this a while back, but I couldn't find the link.)
Heffel
Expert Java EE Consulting
EMPEROR PENGUIN: Aptenodytes forsteri
Distribution: Antarctica.
Habitat: Lives only on pack ice and in the surrounding oceans.
Size: Emperor penguins measure around112cm. in length and they weigh anything from 20 - 40kg.
Lifespan: Roughly 20 years.
Krispy Cream is people
... labor pains keep giving us new tarballs...
Is that anything like the pain associated with a kidney stone? Heard those suck.
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if Linus remembers the exact date that
he first wrote the multithreaded application that printed out
1's and 2's, which eventually became Linux. That
was the true beginning of Linux, although the official
date is the usenet post
The link to the slashdot story on "Good software takes 10 years" can be found here.
Heffel
Expert Java EE Consulting
Have you trolls no shame?!!!
How old is that in Penguin Years?
Happy Birthday Linux!
Thanks Linus!
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
Linux Today has a poll where you can vote for the best operating system.
Note: This is an unbiased and unscientific poll, for entertainment purposes only.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
Happy Birthday, Linux! (:
Thank you all.
I am celebrating the 10th anniversary of my 24th birthday today!
This
it's kinda ironic that windows XP source was finalized today, marking today it's "birth"-day.
(linux and winXP share a birthday? is that all they share?)
The best birthday present I can think to give the Linux community on its 10th birthday is the news that Slashdot casually forgot to mention that trading on VA Linux Systems' stock was halted yesterday during market trading. The quicker this company falls off the radar, the quicker the Linux community can go back to being the way it was before VA came along. Cooperative, fair, and fun, instead of competitive, corrupt, and stressful.
With that in mind, its easy to say that Linux has a bright future ahead. Here's to another 10..
Bowie J. Poag
Just the bigot in me coming out, that's all.
*cough*
HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro.
Since Slashdot's search function is currently down while they rebuild the search database, I'll spare you the flame you might normally get for whining that your submission of a two-day-old story was rejected.
considering it's still a few years away from puberty, there's still some time before linux's real Growth Spurt.
and if you consider in ten years it's gone from exactly one user to.. um? millions? (depends on who you ask) the next few years will be prety interesting.
also if you consider the original kernel source and the current(ish) kernel source are, respectively, 71 Kb and 26,830 Kb (gzipped), what will the future bring? 2 CD distros of just the kernel?
hell, the patches are 10x larger than the original source. that's one fast growing 10 year old...
- Entertaining Bits from the Ancient Kernel Tree
happy birthday Linux and thank you, Linus /kick User
<RMS> it's GNU/Linux !!!!
<RMS>
And then I said, "Yeah.... right.... Some college kid is going to implement UNIX. Yeah... Walk away slowly..." And I deleted the partially composed email.
They say the only things you truely regret are the things you didn't do. Well, I KNOW that is not true, but not sending that email is something I DO regret.
Stonewolf
Of course, this is just my opinion, but since the whole point of Linux is that it's "Free" (i.e., open to the world), then I'd say it was "born" on the first day it was available for download -- i.e., released. Obviously, it wasn't finished then, but what software product is ever really "finished" on its first release?
Your Servant, B. Baggins
Linux is finnish, and most finns start drinking at 12-16.
Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.
OK, I'm a geek, so I know what you're saying in the above sentence. However, I still can't help cringing a little when I hear labor pains and tarball in the same sentence. Sounds like Linus just gave birth to the elephant man or something...
Just want to say Congratulations to all Linux Developers!
I hope to still be able to run Linux in 2010 in my 15000Mhz PC.
:-)
Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailt
CmdrTaco might be in Vladivostok, or Guam, or some part of the earth where "Today" is already saturday. But then again, this is /.'s own CT, who thinks that Holland is in Michigan :-)
.mi.us, but I'm heading up to Rotterdam in a few hours to consume large quantities of beer]
I'll be downing a cold beer to celebrate, actually, the celebrations seem to have started early, and I'll continue for another few hours until the official "announcement anniversary"
the AC
[Yes, I know there is a Holland in
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
And Windows NT turns 8 in September. It first shipped in September 1993. (Development first started in October 1988 when Dave Cutler left DEC for Microsoft.)
Of course, for both NT and Linux, one could argue that the GNU portions of Linux, somewhat like the Win16-OS/2 antecedents of NT, developed earlier, before the true "birth date". (OS embryos in the womb?)
As someone using Linux since 1992, I've found this age similarity to be striking. What do *you* think is the significance of the fact that Linux is older than NT?
--LinuxParanoid
LinuxParanoid, since I remain concerned that Linux advocates aren't paranoid enough(!)
Just think.. In only a few years Linux will be driving his first car, having his first crush, and graduating from school! He's growing up so fast!
-- I'll cut you up so bad, you'll wish I'd never cut you up so bad!
Feliz cumpleaños, Linux!!!
y muchas felicidades a todos los linuxeros, programadores, testers, traductores, escritores y soñadores que hicieron de este sistema operativo una realidad. En honor a Linux, Linus, y todos ustedes, levanto mi copa y brindo por un pasado envidiable, y un futuro aun mejor!
SALUD!!
cHALiTO
"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
I like Linux.
One of the funniest articles I've read is a brief history of Linux, told from the trenches by Lars Wirzenius.
http://www.talknerdy.org
Respectfully yours,
Howard Hughes.
My mistake. Yes, the Search Engine working would have made this a much better deal for everyone. I apologize. Maybe instead of rejecting stories out of hand you could have a few options such as "Already Submitted: Rejected" or "Already Posted: Rejected." Without your search engine working then just "Rejected: -1" doesn't tell me much. Yes, posting like I did is perfectly okay because there are definitely some stories that get sent to Slashdot, but get rejected only to never get posted or posted later in the week or month by someone else. Sometimes even Slashdot editors taking all of the credit themselves.
Again, I apologize...Please fix the search engine and if you could please try and have some kind of more verbose rejection system for articles that have been already posted or repeated. Thanks
Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.
So if producing a Linux kernel feels like childbirth, what do Windows developers feel? Intestinal cramps like someone dumped a whole pack of laxatives into their chocolate shake?
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Linux maybe 10 today. And Linux may have a loyal following. However Linux has a long way to go before it is as refined as BSD. Or as wide spread (main stream user here) as Mac or Win is.
Today would be a great do to address the sad state of affairs Linux is in.... and if you don't think problem exist well then your just kidding yourself.
or something.
I'm exactly 10 years older than Linux, to the day!
_______
The revolution will be slashdotted
-3Suns
~~~~
The Revolution will be Slashdotted
That was not a goatse link. Haven't you noticed that the new /. puts the domain name in brackets after the link like this?
I went out and purchased the Boxed version of RH 7.1. Yes, I know. Zillions of people say "never buy Linux, just download it" Whatever. The boxed version comes with so much more. Including Loki Games. Not that I care to game much any more, but you know, at least it's an option.
.l.. " That's my fsck you sign for threatening IP trace on my last post. Other than that, have a great Birthday, and get sh*tty!
So I coughed up $79.95 + local tax for it. Happy Birthday Linux!
p.s. IP trace this "
Oh great, I get to share my birthday with a large fluffy penguin... just brilliant :)
As I said earlier today... BBC news is MUCH better than CNN :)
Unfortunately, unless proprietary media formats, such as Winblowz Media Player or DVD CSS, are totaly torpedoed or else supported on Linux, the consumer market will not move en masse away from windows. Sadly, we may lose the home desktop because of this DRM crapola. I say this even though I like Linux and despise Microsoft.
"that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
I was going to reply to this message, saying that this is the one point of the entire list which deserves special emphasis. I was a bit surprised to see that someone else has already replied saying it's the only point he did not agree with.
Sure, GNU/Linux people can sometimes be a pain, especially when they disagree with each other. But I always realize that it's only because they care. They care deeply, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
joining that flood in acknowledging what linux has done for me.
thank you all.
Am I going to get calls from irate people telling me all the bad things my OS has been doing, or am I going to have to keep a careful eye on what all those other similar aged OS's are doing, to make sure they don't get my Linux system into trouble?
But technically speaking, neither is the Windows GUI. (at least in 95/98, I'm guessing it's the same in 2000 however...)
In case you haven't noticed, the GUI is a program called Explorer.exe
You can change it if you like, I think it's the first line in System.ini, or one of the other system text files.
You can change it to a different program though there don't appear to be any out there that actually work very well...
I've seen the odd program that does this to get maximum performance out of games - by not loading the Windows GUI at all and booting straight into the game.
But if you want to talk about the Windows kernel, then like the Linux GUI'S, you have to disregard all of the fancy enhancements to the Windows desktop, by your own arguments.
If you ask me which is the singlemost greatest contribution which the 'linux phenomenon' has provided to mankind, my answer would be the grandiose 'philosophy' which it brought to the masses.
Was non-violence a new idea? No. Hadn't many people practiced it before with great perfection? Yes. Then what made Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a great person in the whole history of mankind?
It was the way by which he brought the idea into practice and made the masses adopt them.
This is what had happened with Linux also. Aren't there many OS's better than Linux? You can never say "No" with conviction. Aren't there many Unices themselves who can easily overtake Linux in most of the areas which the Linux community boasts as the advantages of Linux? My answer would be "Yes".
But the way in which Linux brought programming to the masses is unparalleled in computing history. No GNU, no BSD could do that. And this phenomenon shall only grow with time, removing all the flaws, and in its endeavour towards perfection, I have no doubt that one day it will surely overtake its rivals.
Linux will have a big place in history like Buddha and Christ - unparalleled, unprecedented.
In an age, when I understood the term of "software" as a "set of packages for word processing, database etc." and looked at that field with contempt for the same reason, Linux gave me intellectual as well as emotional stimulation. And not just for me, but for millions of others also. It was and is for me the embodiment of almost all the good things on earth.
Now that Linux is ten years old, it's time to get rid of that stupid looking fruity-ass penguin mascot! It's so childish: it looks like a Southpark character with Homer Simpson's head used as a template for the penguin's head. It belongs on the same show that has a purple dinosaur, not on a real OS.
In software, 10 years may as well be 1,000. I love Linux like all you other freaks here, and it's tempting to pat 'the community' on the back, but compare this progress to corporate product. It's not even close. Granted, Linux was not originally intended to be for the widespread masses and it probably never will be. For every-day people, it's a toy. Not even a very good toy at that, if it can't accept your sound card/video card/modem/whatever without more work than most people are willing to do.
Linux is 10-year-old technology chasing its tail to produce more 10-year-old technology and that's a problem.
Just say Linux is 10! or maybe wait till next year.. Gawd Im sick of being told for the 100th time on slashdot that Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today. Linux is 10 today.
--> Your Wisecrack Here
Signed
.....
Chuck
Happy Birthday Linux, and congratulations to you Linus!!! Best thing ever developped!!!!! I wish you (Linus and Linux) all the best for the future!
Why I like Linux? It's now ten years old, and the newest kernel can still run on nearly ten years old systems!!! Can that do other OS' too????
Have a nice linux party, Andi
wtf...its really not cool nor funny.....
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