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 🤍

  • z3bra
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    561 year ago

    Weight your words my friend! GNU’s a behemoth !

    GCC alone is almost as big as Linux. Add core/binutils, the Hurd, … And you easily outclass the kernel itself !

    ~ $ du -sh linux-6.4.12/ gcc-13.2.0/                    1.5G    linux-6.4.12/                                   1.1G    gcc-13.2.0/
    

    Oh, and Emacs.

          • Maybe it hurds in a good way.

            Nah, it’s a kernel it does kernel stuff and does not offer anything a normal user notices compared to other kernels.

            It might be interesting for people who work on kernels just to see different ways on how to solve common problems.

            • KSP Atlas
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              21 year ago

              afaik microkernels have a security advantage since kernel modules do not share the same address space as the main kernel or other modules

          • Possibly licensing reasons. Linux is GPLv2 only, Hurd seems to be GPLv2 or later, there could be reasons you may want to use something under the GPLv3.

          • NormalC
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            31 year ago

            Hurd is not a monolithic kernel, so it’s an interesting technical endeavor. It’s also a GNU package which means it’s guaranteed to stay libre.

            Hurd is also a smaller project relative to linux without the many eyes of the Linux board members.