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Linux Is 10 Today

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the silicon-cakes-taste-terrible dept.

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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  1. growth spurt... by option8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

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  2. Cynicism is not always a good thing... by stonewolf · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ten years ago I saw a posting from Linus about his new operating system. I read it. I remember he was asking for people to help him develop it. I thought it sounded very very nice. I started to compose an email back to him telling him that I would devote all my spare time to the project and make it my lifes goal to support it.


    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

  3. Re:Shame on you. by Karn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Aren't you forgetting that Bell Labs created Unix? I'm afraid that without corporate influence in computing, we would be very far behind.

    Shame you you for overlooking that *small* detail.

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