Celebrating 20 Years of Linux 193
dmbkiwi writes "2011 is the 20th anniversary of the first release of the Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds. Since that time, the Linux kernel, together with the GNU tools and a whole host of software has been developed by enthusiasts and professional programmers into an operating system that runs on tiny embedded systems right up to the world's fastest supercomputers."
The Linux Foundation is hosting a celebratory gala at this year's LinuxCon.
This would be quite interesting... (Score:1, Insightful)
If slashdot stops being broken so that I can click the link. Can't right click->open in tab in ff4, or left click either.... Great.
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:3, Insightful)
Stable API?
Calm down. I'm joking. It has gotten better. Just the occasional, changing of the name of constants.
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh please don't tell me you're another one of those going on about stable kernel API nonsense. [kroah.com]
Oh good. Well, you could just always go the route of getting your driver into the mainline kernel. Or hell, if that's too much trouble, ask them to write it for you [kroah.com]. What's that you say? You want a binary interface so you can write closed source drivers? Well in that case, fuck off. It's called "open source" for a reason.
Re:Happy Birthday (Score:4, Insightful)
decent competition?