Valve aren't the only ones celebrating a birthday this week (see here). Linux also just got a bit older and wiser. Linux is officially 25 years old today!
Here's the original post announcing the project by Linus himself.
Without Linux we wouldn't be here (obviously) and our lives would all be quite different I imagine!
Linux powers so much of our daily lives it's easy to forget: some of our phones, tablets, web servers, routers, TiVo boxes, some televisions and the list just goes on and on.
What are you doing to celebrate? I'm going to do my usual posting of articles and playing games on Linux, wouldn't have it any other way. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mountain Man Aug 25, 2016
QuoteLinux powers so much of our daily lives it's easy to forget: some of our phones, tablets, web servers, routers, TiVo boxes, some televisions and the list just goes on and on.Linux is, in fact, the most used operating system in the world, including Hollywood where it's running some of the biggest render farms in the film industry (every top animation and special effects house uses Linux almost exclusively). No other OS even comes close to Linux in usage. Not many people realize this. It's just on the home desktop where Linux has struggled to make in-roads. A lot of this is because Microsoft and Apple spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on advertising while Linux gets none. Kinda hard to compete when nobody knows you exist.
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Mountain Man Aug 25, 2016
Quoting: lijuNow with M$ producing their ntfs, mssql, .net and so much more for our platform, its just so clear there is no other direction but to grow further and getting stronger.Be wary of Microsoft's interest in Linux. Remember their "embrace and extend" strategy, which is really "search and destroy". They'd love nothing more than to shut the whole thing down.
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GustyGhost Aug 25, 2016
Quoting: 7IJ7oHappy Birthday!
And here an old but nice Linux commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSeImqbV30s
just thought about after reading comments here :)
I'm partial to this one:
View video on youtube.com
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Quoting: STiATMy guess is that if it wasn't Linux, we'd see BSD in the spot Linux is now.For we we'd see GNU/Hurd?
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Cheeseness Aug 26, 2016
25 years already. Time flies!
Also, that's one cool tux logo there ^_^
Also, that's one cool tux logo there ^_^
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Quoting: Mountain ManQuoting: lijuNow with M$ producing their ntfs, mssql, .net and so much more for our platform, its just so clear there is no other direction but to grow further and getting stronger.Be wary of Microsoft's interest in Linux. Remember their "embrace and extend" strategy, which is really "search and destroy". They'd love nothing more than to shut the whole thing down.
You are right about their strategy, but I just think its not really workable for Linux and opensource anymore. Its got too big with support from much bigger powers than M$ alone. I think they are aware of this as well. For sure in server business. For desktop and gaming though... I am too puzzled myself to predict anything.
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Quoting: Mountain ManBe wary of Microsoft's interest in Linux. Remember their "embrace and extend" strategy, which is really "search and destroy". They'd love nothing more than to shut the whole thing down.How would this even work? How could MS embrace, extend and extinguish Linux? Fork the kernel (and/or the GNU userland), "extend" it in incompatible ways, and convince the world to switch to their fork and all of the current copyright holders to drop GPL? Funny stuff. :)
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