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Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24

Posted by timothy on from the isn't-it-about-time-it-got-a-real-job? dept.

prisoninmate writes: It has been 24 long years since the first ever release of the Linux project on August 25, 1991, which is the core component of any GNU/Linux distribution. With this occasion we want to remind everyone that Linux is everywhere, even if you don't see it. You use Linux when you search on Google, when you use your phone, when buy metro tickets, actually the whole Internet is powered by Linux. Happy Birthday, Linux!

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  1. Re:Correction by RabidReindeer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Correction: Happy Birthday GNU/Linux. After all, GNU software makes up 75% of the codebase of any "Linux" distribution. Show some respect.

    Some of that gnu stuff is a LOT older than 24 years. I was using some of it under CP/M back before Linux started school.

    It's the LINUX part of it that's having the birthday.

  2. Re:Crap. by amalcolm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Like you, I use Linux professionally as well as at home, as a developer and user of many CAD and development tools. I've deployed it in embedded environments in a number of scientific intsruments. I simply don't recognise your experience. So I guess YMMV, but you need to take some anger management classes or change career.

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