Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • aggelalex@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 years ago

    It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.

    Famous last words

      • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        3 years ago

        Weight your words my friend! GNU’s a behemoth !

        GCC alone is almost as big as Linux. Add core/binutils, the Hurd, … And you easily outclass the kernel itself !

        ~ $ du -sh linux-6.4.12/ gcc-13.2.0/                    1.5G    linux-6.4.12/                                   1.1G    gcc-13.2.0/

        Oh, and Emacs.

        • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
          1·
          3 years ago

          Speaking as someone that doesn’t understand computers very well: is Hurd usable as a kernel nowadays?

      • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
        1·
        3 years ago

        That’s debatable, since what people generally call “Linux” is more GNU than Linux anyway. “Linux” as the Linux fandom considers is it big and professional like GNU, because it is GNU (among other things).

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 years ago

      And this:

      and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Well, Linux is 32 years old; GNU goes back to 1984, and Unix all the way back to 1970! The history of this OS is much older than Linus Torvalds’s involvement; he “only” created and maintains the most popular kernel.

    But yes, happy birthday to Linux. Many thousands have contributed to making this operating system what it is today and they all have my utmost thanks for it.