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 🤍

  • NormalCEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    It is a “zealot” opinion because I don’t topple over at the slightest breeze.

    Both Linux and Hurd are libre software. However, the freedom of linux is compromised as torvalds set the standard for how OEMs can circumvent the GPLv2.

    “viable competitor” is not the correct term to use. It miscontrues decades of history and circumstance.

    Hurd is far better than Linux in terms of ensuring your freedom. But linux is better for getting more folks onto the freedom ladder. Linux however, isn’t the end goal: GNU is. If you don’t know what that means, congrats, you’re part of the problem.

    GNU has their own kernel, called linux-libre, which follows the same set of principles as Hurd. It won’t function 100% on modern OEM hardware but its important as message towards freedom.

    I use a blobbed kernel one if my machines, but I also have a librebooted debian thinkpad. I am intensely interested in a fully free OS, this is why i seem stubborn to those who don’t even keep what Im saying in mind.

    My x220 uses intel microcode, that is nonfree software. However, I was convinced by the founder of libreboot’s (Leah Rowe) extensive writing to make it so. Im not completely stubborn, but Im also not careless.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      If you don’t know what that means, congrats, you’re part of the problem

      Ok you sold me, I’ll go back to windows. Fine job building a community.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Ok you sold me, I’ll go back to windows. Fine job building a community.

        So, you’re going to punish yourself because of what somebody said to you?

        • @[email protected]
          0•1 year ago

          I don’t feel punished by stepping away from people like him. If my choices are that guy and his ilk or the occasional ad for bing, I’ll take bing. At least that goes away when you click a button.

      • NormalCEnglish
        -2•1 year ago

        No one is here to coddle your feelings. Enjoy being a loser bootlicker, you never cared in the first place and want to project that onto others.

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          I don’t want to admit using Linux because I’m worried people might confise me with annoying self righteous ideologue twats like you. Same reason I don’t identify as atheist anymore.

          Idk what you think you’re doing, but you’re not helping your cause. That much is for sure.

          • NormalCEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Im sorry you’re insecure. I scream GNU because I’m not embarassed about having an opinion.

            My “cause” doesn’t include kissing your ass when you feel uncomfortable.

            • @[email protected]
              1•1 year ago

              Your “cause” is getting on your high horse and spewing rhetoric for countless paragraphs. Linux is nothing more than a vehicle for you to do that. If it didn’t exist, you’d find something else to fartsniff about. Fuck off.