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Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old(lemmy.ml)

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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 🤍

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f00f/eris@startrek.website
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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.

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JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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My brain gets numb when I start thinking about all the branches that have come from Unix… and the branches from those branches and so on.

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Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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RandomVideos@programming.dev
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Are you sure unix will be created in the year 3.843063914 E+5636(1970!)

How would anything even survive 3.843063914 E+5636 years after the end of the universe to make unix

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Deebster@lemmy.ml
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They misspoke: Hurd will be usable in year 1970!

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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).

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