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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?
Linux the kernel.
You know, the kernel in all those android phones and tablets.
Quite frankly Linux is in most smart phones and tablets, and is the most popular phone os kernel of all time.
Therefore itâ(TM)s incredibly popular and successful in the consumer market.
Improvement of battery life on laptops would be nice. I'm planning to work on that myself but I have three other projects I need to get through first, so it might take a few years before I get around to it. Hopefully someone else will have done it by then.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
... if you forget about Android.
For the win!
Chaos maximizes locally around me.
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
1. A return of hardened gentoo and grsecurity's compliance with the GPL
2. A proper audit of the kernel and critical components to eliminate defects
3. A formal analysis of SELinux along the lines of SEL4
4. 7N reliability
5. Proper funding of RTLinux and further integration into mainstream
6. VST and malloc replacement Hoard as part of a standard Linux distro
7. Third-party maintenance of abandoned architectures
8. Rewrites of XTank, NV and PHIGS
9. Ports of Elite: Dangerous and Cubase
A. Hewlett-Packard's pluggable scheduler
B. Kernel config supporting hardware detection for suggesting defaults
C. Usable Gnome and KDE
D. Replace Systemd with something not made by committee
E. Addition of Occam-Pi/Guppy, Verified C and SystemC to LLVM
F. Harness for loading Linux modules onto alternate physical devices
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
My thoughts exactly. Make it complex, behaving arbitrarily, reduce diagnostics possibilities (binary logging) etc. and many enterprise system administrators will just have their bosses pay for support instead of wading through the mess themselves.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.