Happy Birthday...Linux!

Well, since you ask, I just installed a new Beta Driver which happened to finally fix the broken Cinnamon, so I at least hope to celebrate being finally able to play on my Linux desktop again :|
Well, happy birthday, Linux! :D

Broken Cinnamon? Using it, and sometimes it freezes, that's what you are talking about?

Well, I might put some more work into my Linux course today.

I find it weird that the hashtag #happybirthdaylinux doesn't give any results on facebook yet ...

Thanks, Linus. Again!

Thanks, Linus. Again!

Well, and everyone else - it really is a community effort after all.

All hail Linus and the awesome distro's (and their communities) that spawned in his wake. All Hail.....

Well, and everyone else - it really is a community effort after all.

For sure, the OS we know and love today has been made possible by many, many people over the years.

I still think that people like Linus and RMS deserve special recognition for their efforts though. If it weren't for Linus' kernel then we might have been left waiting for years before HURD was finished and FOSS probably wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.

According to Wikipedia, linux was released 5th of October 1991... So i'm a little confused.

Well, and everyone else - it really is a community effort after all.

For sure, the OS we know and love today has been made possible by many, many people over the years.

I still think that people like Linus and RMS deserve special recognition for their efforts though. If it weren't for Linus' kernel then we might have been left waiting for years before HURD was finished and FOSS probably wouldn't be anywhere near what it is today.

This is 100% spot on. I do think that RMS has the right to ask us to refer to our OS as GNU/Linux. People, of course, can call it what they like...and we're still waiting for HURD to be finished, and that gives us all a notion of the hundreds of man-and-woman-hours it has taken to get the Linux kernel to its current awesome (a word I do not use lightly) state. We shouldn't forget the similar amount of work that followed RMS's announcement of the GNU Project, and, let's never forget that the OS we know and love is 95% GNU Goodness. RMS also gave us the GNU License, which is the definitive document for FOSS, and some consider it his greatest accomplishment.

Richard M. Stallman and Linus Torvalds got two balls rolling, and the world is better off because of these two mens' existence.

I must say I love that photoshopped image of Linus. I think I'll play some more Jedi Outcast today. And perhaps work on a game decompression cache.

According to Wikipedia, linux was released 5th of October 1991... So i'm a little confused.

I believe he is going by the announcement date:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_of_Linux

Broken Cinnamon? Using it, and sometimes it freezes, that's what you are talking about?

Nah, many things happened actually.... many things have been happening for months which prevented me from using that PC during all that time.... the last "thing" was that basically, aside from the lack of direct rendering preventing me from playing any Steam game, the desktop background and the panel were just not appearing at all, which, of course, limited a lot my use of the OS and I preferred to just stay with my laptop....
Then I just decided to download and install AMD's new beta driver yesterday and now the PC works fine and it seems to be even performing better than ever before....
For the first time ever HL2E1 ran with no lag and even Witcher 2 is running fine on medium settings! :D
See, AMD? That is what happens when you make a good driver.... was is that hard?

According to Wikipedia, linux was released 5th of October 1991... So i'm a little confused.

I believe he is going by the announcement date:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_of_Linux

Ah. That does make sense. Thank you.