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Happy 13th Birthday Linux!

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. And that is why... by Gunfighter · · 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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    -- Stu

    /. ID under 2,000. I feel old now.
  2. Only 13?!?! by SirStanley · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Re:puberty by zymurgy_cat · · 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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    -- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
  4. Re:First words by mqRakkis · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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>
    Dat e: 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 protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
    will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
  5. Nah ah! by Nicholas+Evans · · Score: 5, Informative

    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. :(

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  6. Re:puberty by b0r0din · · 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...

  7. Re:My Experience with the Linux by tigerc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.
    Uh huh. That's why a majority of the world's web servers run Apache. here These developers are hardly "weekend hackers", but devoted people. Read this

    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.
    So that's why Google and Amazon, for example, run Linux? [netcraft.com]

  8. With apologies to Bill Cosby by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  9. Re:puberty by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Before he gets a car, he'll have to pay $699 for a license...