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Linux Turns 17 Today
Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
One more year and it should be legal.
[insert witty sig here]
..until Microsoft can legally fuck Linux in the asshole... these days though it seems like Linux is going to be the one "giving it". Smile Balmer :)
It is currently meant for hackers
OMG SHUT IT DOWN!!!
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
No google logo for this?! I expected a penguin or something like that.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
HURD turned 18 this year (22 if you count the first failed attempt).
There was a *successful* attempt?????
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Its called Ubuntu and he is supposed to be 60 years old and lives as a zoo keeper, naming all of his projects after various animals there.
"The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica"
Britannica is overrated, wake me when it make the first page of wikipedia ;-)
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane" -PKD
Congrats! 17 years and almost 2% of the market share. This is the year!
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Time keeps flowing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.
Or did you conveniently forget that it's GNU/Linux?
Ahem, did *you* conveniently forget that it's [Mozilla|Konqueror]/OpenOffice.org/KDE/QT/[X.org|XFree86]/GNU/Linux?
"Barely Legal"
I record my sleeptalking
Obligatory:
1991 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1992 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1993 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1994 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1995 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1996 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1997 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1998 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1999 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2000 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2001 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2002 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2003 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2004 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2005 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2006 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2007 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2008 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!
Stupid whitespace filter, yadda yadda
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix.
It's GoogleApps/IceWeasel/X.org/GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod.
Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.
It's all Emacs needs, anyway.
'a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM DATA WHERE name LIKE '%'... if you're reading this, it didn't work.
Ah, you forgot to mention that RMS has created an operating system long before Linux existed :)
Why celebrate on an arbitrary five yearly basis. Celebrating on prime numbers is far geekier.
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GNU is 24 years old, preceding Linux by 7 years.
This makes me think of GNU as some kind of Frankenstein monster.
And now, Igorrrr... let's put the brrrrain into my arrrtificial GNUuu. Inserrrrt the penguin brrrrain!
- Yesh, Doctor Shtallman.
15, 20, 25, etc. yes. But 17?
Because it is a prime!
send + more == money?
I bet you think you're really hardcore not using a window manager, but let me know when you're hard enough to use GoogleApps/Lynx/GNU/Linux.
...coz, lord knows, it was an ugly baby.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Does anything make RMS happy? So far not seen much signs of any happiness in the man.
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