Happy 13th Birthday Linux!

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 25, 2004 @01:04AM from the get-your-lucky-on dept.

carlmenezes writes "On August 25, 2001 we celebrated the 10th birthday of Linux. Today, it's year 13. Lucky for Linux, maybe?" Congrats to everyone who managed to get their name in the credits! You must be very proud parents.

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puberty by nuggetman · 2004-08-25 01:06 · Score: 4, Funny

soon its voice will be cracking and hair will be apearing in places it never appeared befeore

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1. Re:puberty by zymurgy_cat · 2004-08-25 01:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  don't forget that all the jobs in your crontab file will only get done once a week, but you'll now have to configure them to run every 5 minutes. ps and top will now start outputting things like, "yeah, yeah, i'll get to it later" and "i already did it this week!"
  
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2. Re:puberty by doggiesnot · 2004-08-25 01:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Ah, they grow up so fast!
  
  You're lucky, when your little penguin is ready for junior/senior prom, at least you won't need to rent a tuxedo.
  
  rm -rf /bin/laden http://andrewhitchcock.org/index.pl?page=binladen
3. Re:puberty by b0r0din · 2004-08-25 01:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  young-man$ rm trash
  rm: Aww, Mom! I'll do it later.
  young-man$ set TABLE "now"
  set: But I did it last week! Ask the Sparc5, I'm busy playing Counterstrike.
  young-man$ exec homework
  exec: Command failed.
  young-man$ write paper
  write: paper is not logged on.
  young-man$ kill -9 1
  NOOOOooooooooooo...
4. Re:puberty by EvilTwinSkippy · 2004-08-25 01:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  And let's not forget look forward to Tux's first $600 phone bill, nor the constant onslaught of "I need a car."
  
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5. Re:puberty by lukewarmfusion · 2004-08-25 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Before he gets a car, he'll have to pay $699 for a license...
Closed party by tcdk · 2004-08-25 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

So I click "Read More" and get a
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
...message. Inviting people to a birthday party and they not letring them in the door...
That's just rude...

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it's teenage years by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-25 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

when the child genius starts getting distracted and all rebelious.

linus: what are you rebeling against?

tux: whadda ya got?
Little boy is growing up. by The+I+Shing · 2004-08-25 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Linux is 13? Pretty soon it's going to start liking girls, [sniff] and then before you know it you're handing over the car keys and telling it to please be careful. (oops, I've assigned the male gender to an operating system... all the girls who read Slashdot will be mad at me... all three of them...)

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1. Re:Little boy is growing up. by MmmmAqua · 2004-08-25 01:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Hey now, don't go forcing Linux into your gender roles! Linux is about choice - so you'll just have to become comfortable with Linux's new companion - Tim.
  
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2. Re:Little boy is growing up. by Qzukk · 2004-08-25 02:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Could be worse, Linux could have chosen Bob ;)
  
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Linux a Teen? by Manip · 2004-08-25 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh woot, we've had 10years of calm quiet Linux and now we get 5 of teen Linux.. moody and depressed. :-/

I for one can't wait until Linux reaches maturity on its 18th.

PS I bet Linux will get more girls fiddling with it than I did as a teen.. UHH even than I do currently :'(
1. Re:Linux a Teen? by Lumpy · 2004-08-25 02:10 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I for one can't wait until Linux reaches maturity on its 18th.
  
  please, show me one 18 year old that has maturity...
  
  drinking like everything's a wild party.. no sense of reality..
  
  call me when it's made it through 4 years of college, 3 of which it had to pay for because mom and adad got pissed and pulled all their funding in the first year because linux was doing nothing but partying all the time at college and getting bad grades.
  
  more is learned by the kids that get slapped with the reality of having to enter the real world of pain and work and exiting the magical world of everything is done for me. than all the graduate classes at the best colleges on this planet.
  
  I think every child at graduation from highschool should be FORCED to work 8 months in a public service role locally or part of the peace corps abroad. slap them in the face hard with reality befoer they waste their first year at college getting high and still to this day cant remember where the car he had when he went to school is.
  
  Yes, I lost a 1982 ford mustang at school my first year... it was one hell of a party (a 3 month drunk play's hell on your Calculus grade) and I still find beer caps in storage boxes I rendomly look in from my first year of undergrad..
  
  I think I had a couple of roommates... and I am sure the car was red.
  
  Oh man I really hope that Linux is not going to follow the human maturity cycle... it's going to be a complete know-it-all ass until around 23..
  
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This is TH and I pronounce Linux as... by TeknoHog · 2004-08-25 01:08 · Score: 3, Funny

It was thirteen years ago today Col. Torvalds let the source away. We've been going in and out of drives but we guarantee to raise uptimes. So may I introduce to you the hack you've known for all these years Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band! We're Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band, we hope you will enjoy the code. Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band, just hack and let the evening go! Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band! It's wonderful to post here, it's certainly no troll. You're such a loyal userbase, we'd like to merge your code with us, we'd love to grep your /home. I don't really want to freeze the code, but I thought you might like to know this release is going to fix the root and we want you all to patch for good. So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy's fear Col. Torvalds' Linux slash GNU Band!

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And that is why... by Gunfighter · 2004-08-25 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny

... I got married on the 10th birthday of Linux. That way my anniversary would be easy to remember.

By the way honey, if you're reading this... Happy Anniversary.

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1. Re:And that is why... by kfg · 2004-08-25 01:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Don't forget to email her a jpeg of flowers. It would be a bitch to have to play CounterStrike Source alone for the next week.
  
  KFG
2. Re:And that is why... by sometwo · 2004-08-25 01:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Maybe you can get her some Linux jewelry....
Only 13?!?! by SirStanley · 2004-08-25 01:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I feel kinda creepy for having to fsck my linux partition now.

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happy birthday! by sometwo · 2004-08-25 01:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Here's a special birthday package
Colonel? by Glytch · 2004-08-25 01:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Shouldn't that be Kernel Torvalds?
Come on... by StevenHenderson · 2004-08-25 01:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Come on, Linux...just tell me you're 18. I'm dying to install you on my computers any play with you all night long
Re:Linux is 13.. by spellraiser · 2004-08-25 01:30 · Score: 3, Funny

And what a revolution that was!
I mean, jumping from version 3.1 to a whopping 95 in just over 3 years ... it boggles the mind.
Here's to the fine people at Microsoft!
Thank you, thank you. No, thank you. You can stop applauding now. Really.

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With apologies to Bill Cosby by gosand · 2004-08-25 01:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I spawned your process, and I can kill -9 you!

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Re:Nah ah! by suso · 2004-08-25 02:03 · Score: 4, Funny

You're right, the release date of the first version should be its birthday. So today is more like the 13th anniversary of the middle of its third tri-mester. ;-)
Re:First words by hoofie · 2004-08-25 02:04 · Score: 4, Funny

I like the bit at the bottom:

...it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(."

I think the hardware support has moved on a bit from then....[My linux is currently running on a dual-processor pentium with SCSI raid array].
Penguin years... by atomic-penguin · 2004-08-25 02:06 · Score: 4, Funny

But the average penguin lives 15-20 years. So that is like 46 in penguin years. So Tux would be going through a mid-life crisis about now.

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