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Happy 32nd Birthday, Linux! (9to5linux.com)

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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 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually thought linux was older than that. TIL.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] joel_feila 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes but someone will make it one now

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh dear. What have I done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MNU.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a card I can sign?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah we're passing round the SSH keys

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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==

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh good idea! Here's mine!

QWxsIFlvdXIgQmFzZSBBcmUgQmVsb25nIFRvIFVz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's this? ECDSA for ants?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's ASCII plain-text, try decode it