Linux Turns 17 Today

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Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 5, 2008 @01:54PM from the hippo-birdies dept.

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.

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Age of Consent by BaldGhoti · 2008-10-05 13:55 · Score: 5, Funny

One more year and it should be legal.

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1. Re:Age of Consent by weenis · 2008-10-05 13:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd totally fsck that!
2. Re:Age of Consent by iminplaya · 2008-10-05 14:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Go for it
  
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3. Re:Age of Consent by Reikk · 2008-10-05 14:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I thought it already was legal. Linux has been fucking me for years.
4. Re:Age of Consent by eln · 2008-10-05 14:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You sick son of a bitch. How could you take advantage of a young, vulnerable operating system like that? An operating system less than 18 years of age is incapable of informed consent, and should not be "used", as you put it.
  I'll be calling the Feds on you, and God help you if they find any screenshots of Linux on your computer.
5. Re:Age of Consent by larry+bagina · 2008-10-05 15:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That won't be a problem until Linux support sound.
  
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6. Re:Age of Consent by jadedoto · 2008-10-05 15:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Now here in Kentucky...
7. Re:Age of Consent by Plutonite · 2008-10-05 16:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Mod parent up. Linux has been fucking us all, but we didn't care, because it was so.. open about it. We were all in this together. In fact, some have come to call us a "community", but I despise the term.
Re:also: by myowntrueself · 2008-10-05 14:07 · Score: 5, Funny

HURD turned 18 this year (22 if you count the first failed attempt).
There was a *successful* attempt?????

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this just in by Nyall · 2008-10-05 14:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Time keeps flowing.

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Re:Linus... humble!? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-05 15:10 · Score: 5, Funny

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?
I vote next years first ubuntu release by sleeponthemic · 2008-10-05 15:16 · Score: 5, Funny

"Barely Legal"

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17 years... by rampant+mac · 2008-10-05 15:17 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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1. Re:17 years... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-05 16:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'll never forget the day I was at a large meeting with my clients. They never took me seriously and in fact started leaving the room. Turns out it was because my dick was hanging out of my pants. Never again will I use velcro. From that day forward, it was zipper only!