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@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 years 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.

      • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
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        3 years ago

        Speaking as someone that doesn’t understand computers very well: is Hurd usable as a kernel nowadays?