Dear all, today is August 25, 2015, and the time has come for us, Linux users, to party in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Linux project, announced by none other than its creator, Linus Torvalds, on the sunny day of Sunday, August 25, 1991.
Yes, it has been 24 long years (actually time flies pretty fast when you're having fun installing Linux kernel-based operating systems) since the first ever release of the Linux project, which is the core component of any GNU/Linux distribution.
Because it's celebration time, we won't bore you with nonsense and technical details about what Linux is or how Linux is built, or who uses Linux. For that, we have attached a nice video at the end of the article, thanks to the Linux Foundation.
What we want to remind everyone with this piece of article is that Linux is everywhere, even if you don't see it. You use Linux when you search on Google, you use Linux when you buy metro tickets, actually the whole Internet is powered by Linux!
Linux is even used on airplanes, and all sorts of smart devices that you buy and use in your home. Your Wi-Fi router is powered by Linux, your Android phone is powered by Linux, and you might even use Linux at work and you don't even know it.
The Softpedia Linux team wishes a very Happy Birthday to Linux! May you live longer than anything else in this world! Happy 24th birthday, Linux!
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
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Windows is made by M$ who want to drink my blood in a satanic ritual while Bill Gates dances naked, better install Linux because it is open source
It's rather simple. GNU supposed to be an entire Unix clone with all components produced by one organization (so to call). By the beginning of the nineties, they had everything except a working kernel, and then some people decided to try newly developed Linux kernel (since it was also free, GPL-ed, and supported most standard Unix system calls at the time) with the rest of GNU stuff (init process manager, shell, commands etc), and that's what's GNU/Linux is all about. The details are internal stuff for enthusiasts. Even in Microsoft separate team developed the kernel DLLs and another teams developed the userspace stuff.
Then I must be doing something wrong, because my Linux workstation has been running fine for three years at work (Ubuntu 12.04 with lots of additional software), and I have the root password so I can do whatever I want. I guess I'll have to derp harder.
but yes, linux can be fucked easily too. ofc not if you just use basic programms
Actually this happened to me. I did try to change some details of a theme or something using the GUI only and in the end my x.org config was broken. No idea what happened as I immediately gave up on that installation.
Main problem with Linux is that it's way too easy to delete files required by the OS. Proper file protection, anyone? Or editing a simple config the wrong way and unbootable again. Linux = POS OS.
Main problem with Linux is that it's way too easy to delete files required by the OS. Proper file protection, anyone? Or editing a simple config the wrong way and unbootable again. Linux = POS OS.
Maybe try be less when using linux, the kinds of problem your describing are user error i.e having no idea what your doing or systems your working with and botching your system. POS user
This. If you break your OS, any OS. That easily, you need to get good. Not the OS. Any OS can be broken if you have admin or root control.
Shall we do a battle between how easy you can fuck up an OS? You try to fuck up Windows, I'll do Linux. I'll guarantee I can fuck Linux up in 1-2 seconds. Try that on Windows.
If you let me preconfigure the linux I bet I win
Seriously though, to fuck up linux you'd have to actively delete or edit files. To fuck up windows you just need to run a suspicious exe, insert a usb stick, etc...
and steamos will not change anything unless they pay devs so much money to support opengl/vulkan or whatever only. but that wont happen cause of the consoles
who cares about fucking casual shit like nintendo, ios or android? xboner uses dx12 with the newest update in autumn, win 12 uses it. and ps4 uses some proprietary shit from sony (forgot its name).
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when using linux, the kinds of problem your describing are user error i.e having no idea what your doing or systems your working with and botching your system. POS user
