Linux Turns 17 Today 285
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Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
One more year (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
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Made for hackers (Score:5, Funny)
It is currently meant for hackers
OMG SHUT IT DOWN!!!
what (Score:5, Funny)
Re:also: (Score:5, Funny)
HURD turned 18 this year (22 if you count the first failed attempt).
There was a *successful* attempt?????
My Linux has a fake ID (Score:5, Funny)
Its called Ubuntu and he is supposed to be 60 years old and lives as a zoo keeper, naming all of his projects after various animals there.
Re:Age of Consent (Score:4, Funny)
Britannica? (Score:3, Funny)
"The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica"
Britannica is overrated, wake me when it make the first page of wikipedia ;-)
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
Go for it [m0sia.ru]
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
Grats! (Score:2, Funny)
Congrats! 17 years and almost 2% of the market share. This is the year!
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
You sick son of a bitch. How could you take advantage of a young, vulnerable operating system like that? An operating system less than 18 years of age is incapable of informed consent, and should not be "used", as you put it.
I'll be calling the Feds on you, and God help you if they find any screenshots of Linux on your computer.
this just in (Score:5, Funny)
Time keeps flowing.
Re:also: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Age of Consent (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:5, Funny)
Or did you conveniently forget that it's GNU/Linux?
Ahem, did *you* conveniently forget that it's [Mozilla|Konqueror]/OpenOffice.org/KDE/QT/[X.org|XFree86]/GNU/Linux?
I vote next years first ubuntu release (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
17 years... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory:
1991 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1992 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1993 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1994 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1995 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1996 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1997 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1998 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1999 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2000 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2001 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2002 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2003 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2004 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2005 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2006 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2007 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2008 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!
Stupid whitespace filter, yadda yadda
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
Please don't let this be the new rickroll.....
LOL (Score:1, Funny)
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix.
Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:4, Funny)
It's GoogleApps/IceWeasel/X.org/GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod.
Re:One more year (Score:2, Funny)
Re:17 years... (Score:5, Funny)
I'll never forget the day I was at a large meeting with my clients. They never took me seriously and in fact started leaving the room. Turns out it was because my dick was hanging out of my pants. Never again will I use velcro. From that day forward, it was zipper only!
Re:also: (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.
It's all Emacs needs, anyway.
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent up. Linux has been fucking us all, but we didn't care, because it was so.. open about it. We were all in this together. In fact, some have come to call us a "community", but I despise the term.
Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, you forgot to mention that RMS has created an operating system [wikipedia.org] long before Linux existed :)
Re:Relevance? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My Linux has a fake ID (Score:5, Funny)
Why did I suddenly imagine a fake ID with a penguin in the photo and the name "McLovin"?
Re:Thank RMS too! (Score:4, Funny)
GNU is 24 years old, preceding Linux by 7 years.
This makes me think of GNU as some kind of Frankenstein monster.
And now, Igorrrr... let's put the brrrrain into my arrrtificial GNUuu. Inserrrrt the penguin brrrrain!
- Yesh, Doctor Shtallman.
Re:Relevance? (Score:3, Funny)
15, 20, 25, etc. yes. But 17?
Because it is a prime!
Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:this just in (Score:3, Funny)
Try taking your watch *off* before you get into the shower.
Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)
Even in Kentucky, Linux ought to be relatively safe. I heard it was able to run quite fast...
Re:Age of Consent (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure 16 is the age of consent here in KY, and has been a long time.
And if I'm wrong, well, it's way too late to matter now.
And what a handsome teen it is... (Score:5, Funny)
...coz, lord knows, it was an ugly baby.
Re:Made for hackers (Score:3, Funny)
Languages evolve. For this reason I tend not to talk about the large amounts of faggots on my back porch.
I hearby hand you an official "Waa Waa, Cry Some More?" tag.
Re:Age of Consent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Britannica is too outdated (Score:4, Funny)
Does anything make RMS happy? So far not seen much signs of any happiness in the man.
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