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Happy 13th Birthday Linux!
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.
soon its voice will be cracking and hair will be apearing in places it never appeared befeore
...and that's all there is to it.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think
I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community
at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source
based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing
as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying
technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to
back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult
for, we wanted to integrate the shareware version of Linux into our
server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing
fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of
several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high
that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which
were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of
serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in
VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't
believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go
just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code
that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the
system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to
increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3
machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say
the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't
even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was
supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The
3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that
they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise"
environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had
experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted,
Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in
their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full
fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that
the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled
filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that
since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with
some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour,
we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't
a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines
instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server
pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the
Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my
clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the
free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the
old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have
also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that
we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks
of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the
same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to
compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming,
but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows
98/NT/2K are your only choices.
.. and Windows 95 was 9, just yesterday!
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.
I don't know you that well, but people tell me good things about you. Have a good one... you're old enough to smoke now. I think.
Beauty is not there. Nor in the stagnant bay of Marsh's library where you read the fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas. -
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
That's just rude...
TC - My Photos..
when the child genius starts getting distracted and all rebelious.
linus: what are you rebeling against?
tux: whadda ya got?
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...)
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
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
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
... 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.
-- Stu
/. ID under 2,000. I feel old now.
Like it was going to last year? :-P
And Linux will finally be old enough to watch "Adult Swim".
"It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!" - RIP, Harry...
Check out the best P2P sharing website: MEDIACHEST.COM
and i knew you, when you just turned 5. remember it like it was yesterday.
damn im getting old.
Congratulations to all the Kernel Folks !! and to the Creator - Linus
I hope it doesn't become a petulant and rebellious teenager - sleeping late, making people wait, grumbling about garbage collection, exploring promiscuous mode, ignoring quotas, etc.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
..leftover from the sysadminday: http://www.pweissmann.de/kuchen.jpg
(A blackberry cake I made, a really simple recipe).
Happy Birthday Linux !
Spelling mistakes: My is english spoken not tongue of mother.
I feel kinda creepy for having to fsck my linux partition now.
--------========+++Dont Feed The Lab Techs+++========--------
The stars are aligned. Clearly, this will be the year of linux on the desktop!
Does anyone have a link or the text to the complete accouncement email?
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
C'mon, how many of you bought your Linux distro a cake?
...and I'd like to give you that first step into penguin-manhood.
{pops tab on beer can}
Drink up sonny boy, you've got a long road ahead of you and no one is going to fight your fights for you anymore. Go get 'em boy!
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
What's your favorite help sites?
Computer Hope's Unix
Tech-recipes's Unix
Tek-tips forums
Sun's BigAdmin
Help me add to my favorites...
Davak
And next year. Whats your point? ;)
-420
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
Who cares about getting their name in the credits. I want my name on the IPO. :-)
Mazel Tov!
wouldn't today be year 14?
Mongrel News all the news that fits and froths
n/t
Here's a special birthday package
You could always go to the zoo and sing happy birthday to the penguins, and maybe they will toss some crackers your way :)
I, for one, will not be messing around with any distro until they are at least 18. At least Longhorn won't be out until after that. :)
Shouldn't that be Kernel Torvalds?
Too bad the Google Doodle is taken up for a couple of weeks with the Olympics, otherwise Google should put up a penguin there to acknowledge this milestone.
The revolution will not be televised.
Message-ID: 1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.helsinki.fi
:-)
From: torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
To: Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Hello everybody out there using minix-I'm doing a (free)
operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional
like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been brewing since
april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it
somewhat
Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them
Linus
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
I remember ten years ago read an article about developing a OS. It quoted Bill Gates on why there is so little competition. The gist of his answer is first the cost is too high for most companies to want to take on. Second he said to get to market then have the product mature takes about ten years. So Linux beat the cost factor, but not the time factor.
But why only have one birthday a year. Later this year we have 7,000,000 minutes old and next year there is 5,000 days old to celebrate.
More useless date facts available here.
Omnis amans amens
root$ uptime
5477 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes
huh?
root$ uname
Solaris 4.03c
Where do I get this Linux thing?
If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
According to Linus' book, Linux 0.01 was released on Sept. 17, 1991. (Second to last line, Page 87, Just for Fun). So today isn't the birthday. :(
The Yasashii Syndicate ||
that Linux will go into a rebellious period, wear goth punk hair, chains, and all black?
Linux rebellious? Oh wait...
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
/me sings:
:)
Happy Birthday to you,
You live in the zoo,
You look like a penguin,
and you smell like one too!
Happy 13th Linux!
T.
Reading the Linux is obsolete story they talk about Rick Rashid being on the free software side. Is is the same Rick Rashid that works at Microsoft?
because today is my birthday, seriously (29). I had no idea I shared my birthday with Linux.
mp3's are only for those with bad memories
I thought it was on Sept 17th? Isn't that when the post about it went out?
That sucks, we were planning on opening our Linux Support business here in Bloomington, IN on Sept 17th. Oh well, we'll still open then, it will just be our opening day.
Wait, shouldn't we be celebrating its first birthday in 2036?
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
Joyeux anniversaire from the Mandrake users.
KFG
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: Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) :-(."
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
The Haiku project recently turned 3 years old. Several websites have covered the nice letter Michael Phipps wrote to the community.
Happy birthday Linux, naturally... Without all of the hard work in regular Open Source projects, I doubt there would have been half as much motivation for our small projects, in another timeline. (You know, the evil timeline where Billy G is president of the US of A. :)
Cheers!
user@host$ diff
Nope. Much older than that. There is evidence of it in Norse mythology and Ancient Rome. Some believe that it is considered unlucky because it follows such a nice number as 12. 12 is a nice round number that is easily divisible and it is very popular with numerologists - "12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus". 13 on the other hand is prime and is really a bastard. Try splitting 3 pizzas amongst 13 people.
I spawned your process, and I can kill -9 you!
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
...you are now an awkward teen.
Now, stay the hell out of my pr0n.
There's a hacker who's sure, Open Source is the cure
And he's using a kernel called Linux
When he boots it he knows, that the source isn't closed
With a "make" he can fix any problems
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And he's using a kernel called Linux
On the top he'll run GNU cos he wants to be sure
All the standards and file types are open
He'll put PERL on his box and he'll edit with vi
Or with Emacs because he has choices
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And he's using a kernel called Linux
On the desktop he gets KDE, Gnome and X
And Enlightenment if he wants slimmer
GCC will compile all the source he may find
Using optimise flags to go faster
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And he's using a kernel called Linux
And it whispered that soon, if FOSS does call the tune
That the penguin will lead us to reason
No proprietary code, software patents will die
Cos the world will say knowledge's for sharing
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
It was started by this guy called Linus
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
in other news, a suprised /. user was arrested this morning for consuming beer and cigarettes in front of under-21 linux distro.
"it did not tell me. would not have done it if i knew", accused says.
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.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Credits are for the weak. I am in the credits for a game I never tested, and not in the credits for many games I helped to test...
...is there a chance she really reads this??
oh my, you lucky bastard....
The cute little penguin is growing every day, especially here in China. As linux is growing mature in many domains and the desktop is making good progress, with the support directly from our government, I think there is a bright future of Linux for our people.
:)
:)
:)
I've been promoting linux to my friends, my classmates, and always trying my best to help people who are interested in Linux so that they can have smoother migration from windows.
Yes, some of them go back to windows again, and some of them do fall in love with our lovely penguin
I know I can't do much, but I've tried and I'm doing my very best.
I have a dream that one day I have a son or a daughter, I'm going to celebrate the 18th birthday with my little baby
And I've been thinking about being a primary school teacher someday, and teach our children -- the next generation of our country -- Linux
Hey, again, Happy Birthday to my dear Linux, and
sorry for my poor english~
So today is not Linux's 13th birthday. It's actually the 13th anniversary of Linus announcing that he was pregnant. The date of the first public release of the code should be the actual birthday.
As someone mentioned earlier, Linux 0.01 was released on Sept. 17, 1991
And today would be the 16th anniversary of the day I lost my virginity. w00t!.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I heard it came from 13 witches to a coven and 13 full moons to a year. Part of the Church's Jihad against Pagans.
Insert Generic Sig Here:
It's Bar Mitzvah time. You're a man, now, Linux.
Now that Linux is a teenager, I am worried that my server is going to sneak into my liquor cabinet, and smoke all my... um... cigarettes. Yeah, that's it.
Happy Birthday!!! Woot! In celebration, I am installing Gentoo on an old laptop (while at work, bah!). It is currently running Win2k, so it's being liberated.
-J
Fire in the sky
Why don't we take a look, shall we?
h tm l
Linux has Tux.
Is this what ms' mascot should be:
ttp://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5960/manatee.
or
http://www.manateeworld.net
Let's vote
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
*shrug* 10 bites on /. isn't too bad for an old piece of bait. Sure, it's nowhere near as good as "Ways to tell your son is a computer hacker" or whatever it was called, but as trolls go this is one of the best ones which is why you keep seeing it.
All's true that is mistrusted
That irritated me: the upgrade to Windows 98 was called Windows ME, while the update to Windows NT was called Windows 2000.
Then again, I just went from Gentoo 1.4 to Gentoo 2004.1, and I seem to recall RedHat skipped from 3 to 6 or something like that.
All's true that is mistrusted
Heh, that's something new i didnt know... Yea, its my bday today as well =) (along with Sean Connery i believe), and this news makes the day even happyer.
Aw...Tux and I have the same birthday...granted, it's my 21st, so I think I have a little more to be happy about tonight... I'll raise a toast to you, Tux!
August 25, 1975
Yeah me!
Actually, from linux10.org, you'll note they consider the birthday to be when Linus first announced the project:
I've been a Linux user for 10 of those years... I'm curious how many people were working with it in the first three years before I discovered it.
--brian
Now is the time for everyone to attend the bar-mitzvah and quietly slip the young man a cheque or two after the ceremony.
OK Darl, you can come out now...we know it's you...and Bill...I can see you hiding behind him.
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
I usually like to feed the trolls, but this is getting ridiculuos.
Timang tinggi tinggi
parang sudah asah
alang alang mandi
biar sampai basah
Amazing... I share my birthday with Linux! (but I'm 29 today, not 10!)
i am a soviet space shuttle
It starts getting all angry, and going "I hate you mom and dad". Next thing you know, it's going to have a Live Journal and spend the whole day listening to Linkin Park in the garage. Great. Just what we need.
At least Mac OS can vote.
Next year, i'm taking it out to a bar!
Could this mean that Linux will die this year?
Yup, right along with Apple. They've been slated to fold ever year for the last 20 years.
Welcome to the club, Linux! And Happy Birthday!
Ooooooh, burn! How do /you/ like it? Yeah, kind of stupid, isn't it?
Ouch!
Weeeeeird Windows is da debil.
Happy birthday Linux!
AOL!
AOL!
This is not crapflooding. Look it up.
linus: what are you rebeling against?
tux: whadda ya got?
Linus:Rebelliousness
tux:Ummm, ok. Let's get back to work then.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
You must be very proud parents.
We're so proud of our little Linux!
-Santa Claus & Tooth Fairy
Montreal - Best city to live in!
...I just got our school (1600students) to start using 3 more open source products. Haven't manage the switch to linux on 500+ PCs but small steps work better sometimes.
-Tim Louden