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 🤍

  • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    No, its because Linus Torvalds doesn’t consider libre software to be important. Torvalds sucks when it comes to free software.

    GNU Hurd is an incredibly important project because there can’t be just one “free software kernel.”

    Richard Stallman doesn’t care about popularity. He already changed the world. What he does care about is people forgetting their commitment to freedom.

    He doesn’t give a shit if people say Linux, he does give a shit if people are “marketing” Linux without an emphasis on freedom.

    Something that many have failed in.

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        1 year ago

        Nothing is holding hurd back. Debian and GNU Guix both ship hurd. The world has failed hurd instead.

        Hurd will never accept firmware blobs or proprietary drivers. Thus, it will not work on OEMs who use those tactics for their machines. You are still able to install hurd in a VM as those have libre standards.

        This is true for all GNU packages, not just hurd.

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          1 year ago

          Oh that’s sad. The nature of commerce and competition means that proprietary stuff will never go away because making closed stuff is the way MBAs are taught to create “competitive advantage”

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            1 year ago

            The strategy of the GNU project is to create and support as much free software as possible to make proprietary software obsolete.

            Firmware is one of the biggest hurdles as the freeworld has the userland locked down for the most part (albeit some editing software like CAD or becoming feature competitive with photoshop).

            There will always be people seeking to control others through dirty licenses and EULAs. The solution is not to target them (yet!) but to reject them and empower ourselves.

            If that means not being able to use a wifi card: use an adapter! Or use ethernet. If that means we can’t get microcode, we’ll find cpus unencumbered by patents or reveree engineer them. Want to use an apple m1? There are people trying to liberate that machine as much as possible.