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Happy 32nd Birthday, Linux! (9to5linux.com)
submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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It’s August 25th and it’s Linux’s 32nd birthday, so join me in celebrating the birthday of Linux for those of you who celebrate it on this day with a glass of good champagne and a delicious cake!

On August 25th, 1991, the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby.”

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[-] guriinii@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I actually thought linux was older than that. TIL.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

You probably were thinking of Unix, which was around since the '60s.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

70s really. Multics is not Unix (not an acronym).

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yes but someone will make it one now

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh dear. What have I done?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MNU.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Same. Turns out I'm older than Linux and I would have guessed the opposite, by a lot.

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think I started using Linux around 1995 with Slackware on a bunch of floppies... Used to compile my own kernel back then... But haven't been doing that in a long time.

Happy bday Linux and thanks Linus

Back then my computer was barely fast enough to play mp3s.....

[-] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is there a card I can sign?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah we're passing round the SSH keys

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Heres my pubkey, please enter it into your /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAhH6uQMqlxUq6sLClnPp03DFbe3ETyqk6hE4k65y8U8yoGY2PsUV8YOOXaQFsGm0bpAFvAbEZwlJBlUP2bx04joV4N70/5NKbeAp6wS5HAiPHdbtaF/5UpqSPC3lkWdcb6WcS+uexdFk/LXKl3kKKw5xD9L7X1M3M/q04NHadOnDvzgmTKnM3bhn7WmSsx3thGDebEN+5ERk/Z85xQI/li201h5ab6B+G2FOQ0MKHw5VqqMUCjimimkXz1tVaYFoZ0oByM8otHyt/+b/DGvx3FGU6O1qgpWdpm3lWrkT300fZCxKlprQag0WaSa7n2i6FBPbUtmbGnI+c/2BD7kDVJw==

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

If you put your root password in lemmy it auto censors it see *********!

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

WinstonChurchill What the Hell! It didn't censor mine!

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Oh good idea! Here's mine!

QWxsIFlvdXIgQmFzZSBBcmUgQmVsb25nIFRvIFVz

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

What's this? ECDSA for ants?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's ASCII plain-text, try decode it

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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