Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 2, 2008 @01:40AM from the even-at-double-the-price dept.

Virgil Tibbs writes "The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing 'Happy Birthday to GNU,' a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry. In the five-minute film, Fry compares the free software operating system to 'good science' and contrasts it with the 'kind of tyranny' imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple that it replaces. He encourages people to use free GNU/Linux distributions like gNewSense and free software generally, for freedom's sake."

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GNU is not an OS by markdavis · 2008-09-02 02:02 · Score: 1, Troll

>"The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year" Hate to break it to you, but "GNU" is not an operating system. You can make one with lots of GNU tools and after many years with no kernel, you could even use HURD. But the 25 years is a celebration of a PROJECT, not an OS. If they had a compelling kernel all those years ago, then it is likely Linux would never have existed. In any case, I am very glad GNU exists! Happy birthday!