In 1991, a uni student from Finland started a "hobby" project because he couldn't afford to pay expensive Unix license that could run on a commodity hardware. At the time, he told on the mailing list that his project wouldn't be anything "big or professional."
It turned out that he was totally wrong.
Happy 56th Birthday to the creator of Linux kernel and git, Linus Torvalds! May you live healthy and happy forever. Thank you for all your hard work and providing us employment and keep it FLOSS😊
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Ash-Miw-Re
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •ralen
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •happy birthday to Linus🥳
nixCraft 🐧
in reply to ralen • • •Kiloku - Secretário do Caos
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Escapist 🇪🇺
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Happy Birthday!
@torvalds
KipJayChou
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •gErrIET 😁🐧🍓 #FckAfD
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Hacker
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •"because he couldn't afford to pay expensive Unix license that could run on a commodity hardware."
And now we can't afford building unlocked commodity hardware to be able to run free software either from the vendor or modified by us.
Happy birthday.
Nu Modular
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •grobi
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I've always been jealous of his huge penguin collection and I'm sure he'll get more for his birthday. What the heck, he has long since earned the Diamond Penguin!
"Happy Birthday"
#Linux
nixCraft 🐧
in reply to grobi • • •Zoran Jeremić
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Cute Penguin
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •(это не совсем те кадры, но, да)
Любопытно, что именно в год его 55'летия я впервые поставил себе Линукс, хах, долго сказка сказывается, да не быстро дело делается...
Cute Penguin
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •reddit.com/r/linux/comments/v6…
(Смотреть через британские сервера!!!)
Benedikt
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I sometimes wonder if the Linux Kernel would've been equally successful with a more laissez-faire communication - I have doubts about it.