Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old - eviltoast

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 🤍

  • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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@sopuli.xyz
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      1 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