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Linux Turns 27 (omgubuntu.co.uk)
It's been 27 years since Linus Torvalds let a group of people know about his "hobby" OS. OMGUbuntu blog writes: Did you know that Linux, like Queen Elizabeth II, actually has two birthdays? Some FOSS fans consider the first public release of (prototype) code, which dropped on October 5, 1991, as more worthy of being the kernel's true anniversary date. Others, ourselves included, take today, August 25, as the "birth" date of the project. And for good reason. This is the day on which, back in 1991, a young Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds sat at his desk to let the folks on comp.os.minix newsgroup know about the "hobby" OS he was working on. The "hobby OS" that wouldn't, he cautioned, be anything "big" or "professional." Even as Linux continues to have lion's share in the enterprise world, it has only managed to capture a tiny fraction of the consumer space. Further reading: Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'?
Which Linux-based distro do you use? What changes, if any, would you like to see in it in the next three years?
Which Linux-based distro do you use? What changes, if any, would you like to see in it in the next three years?
... if you forget about Android.
No need for anything else, really, as the systemd crap is replaced with a sane alternative.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I still say it was a ploy by Redhat to bring in more support money. Here install this massive monstrosity that hasn't been tested and does many extraneous things a startup manager should never worry about. Trust us it will work fine. What is the reason for systemd having a caching DNS server?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard