Happy 32nd Birthday, Linux! (9to5linux.com)
from pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to linux@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 2023 15:45
https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/117630

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 on 25 Aug 2023 16:28 next collapse

I actually thought linux was older than that. TIL.

conciselyverbose@kbin.social on 25 Aug 2023 16:33 next collapse

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

d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz on 25 Aug 2023 16:54 collapse

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

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 2023 20:04 collapse

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

joel_feila@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2023 01:54 collapse

yes but someone will make it one now

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2023 13:24 collapse

Oh dear. What have I done?

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network on 06 Sep 2023 05:38 collapse

MNU.

authed@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 2023 16:39 next collapse

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 on 25 Aug 2023 17:00 collapse

Is there a card I can sign?

sirico@feddit.uk on 25 Aug 2023 18:48 collapse

Yeah we’re passing round the SSH keys

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Aug 2023 19:53 collapse

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 on 25 Aug 2023 21:31 next collapse

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

MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml on 26 Aug 2023 06:53 collapse

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

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network on 06 Sep 2023 05:48 collapse

Oh good idea! Here’s mine!

QWxsIFlvdXIgQmFzZSBBcmUgQmVsb25nIFRvIFVz

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Sep 2023 12:18 collapse

What’s this? ECDSA for ants?

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network on 06 Sep 2023 14:04 collapse

it’s ASCII plain-text, try decode it