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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. Shame on you. by standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. What they say... by hyyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ---|SNIP
    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
    [http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirth da y.html]

    1. Re:What they say... by anticypher · · Score: 4, Funny

      Linux is a cancer
      - Steve Ballmer, crackmonkey

      Unsurprisingly, that's incorrect; LINUX was released on August 25th, 1991 and is therefore a virgo.

      - Kevin Lyda, kevin@suberic.net, from r.h.f one liners file

      the AC

      --
      Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
  3. 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

  4. Re:Nice! by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

    "10 years ago, internet wasn't something 99.99% of the people knew about"



    Ah, the good old days. :\