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 🤍

  • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 year ago

      Speaking as someone that doesn’t understand computers very well: is Hurd usable as a kernel nowadays?

        • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          What is actually the point of using hurd other than being able to say you use Hurd though?

          • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            Maybe it hurds in a good way.

            Nah, it’s a kernel it does kernel stuff and does not offer anything a normal user notices compared to other kernels.

            It might be interesting for people who work on kernels just to see different ways on how to solve common problems.