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Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old(lemmy.ml)

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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 🤍

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z3bra@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.

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Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
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Speaking as someone that doesn’t understand computers very well: is Hurd usable as a kernel nowadays?

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whoareu@lemmy.ca
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Yes if you cherry pick the hardware :)

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flashgnash@lemm.ee
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What is actually the point of using hurd other than being able to say you use Hurd though?

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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