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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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

won't be big and professional like gnu

that didn't age well

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Sure it aged well. WAY WAY BIGGER than gnu.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's debatable, since what people generally call "Linux" is more GNU than Linux anyway. "Linux" as the Linux fandom considers is it big and professional like GNU, because it is GNU (among other things).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Weight your words my friend! GNU's a behemoth !

    GCC alone is almost as big as Linux. Add core/binutils, the Hurd, ... And you easily outclass the kernel itself !

    ~ $ du -sh linux-6.4.12/ gcc-13.2.0/                    1.5G    linux-6.4.12/                                   1.1G    gcc-13.2.0/
    

    Oh, and Emacs.

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