It’s August 25th and it’s Linux’s 32nd birthday, so join me in celebrating the birthday of Linux for those of you who celebrate it on this day with a glass of good champagne and a delicious cake!
On August 25th, 1991, the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix newsgroup that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a “hobby.”
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I actually thought linux was older than that. TIL.
You probably were thinking of Unix, which was around since the '60s.
70s really. Multics is not Unix (not an acronym).
yes but someone will make it one now
Oh dear. What have I done?
MNU.
Same. Turns out I’m older than Linux and I would have guessed the opposite, by a lot.
I think I started using Linux around 1995 with Slackware on a bunch of floppies… Used to compile my own kernel back then… But haven’t been doing that in a long time.
Happy bday Linux and thanks Linus
Back then my computer was barely fast enough to play mp3s…
Is there a card I can sign?
Yeah we’re passing round the SSH keys
Heres my pubkey, please enter it into your /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAhH6uQMqlxUq6sLClnPp03DFbe3ETyqk6hE4k65y8U8yoGY2PsUV8YOOXaQFsGm0bpAFvAbEZwlJBlUP2bx04joV4N70/5NKbeAp6wS5HAiPHdbtaF/5UpqSPC3lkWdcb6WcS+uexdFk/LXKl3kKKw5xD9L7X1M3M/q04NHadOnDvzgmTKnM3bhn7WmSsx3thGDebEN+5ERk/Z85xQI/li201h5ab6B+G2FOQ0MKHw5VqqMUCjimimkXz1tVaYFoZ0oByM8otHyt/+b/DGvx3FGU6O1qgpWdpm3lWrkT300fZCxKlprQag0WaSa7n2i6FBPbUtmbGnI+c/2BD7kDVJw==
If you put your root password in lemmy it auto censors it see *********!
WinstonChurchill What the Hell! It didn’t censor mine!
Oh good idea! Here’s mine!
QWxsIFlvdXIgQmFzZSBBcmUgQmVsb25nIFRvIFVzWhat’s this? ECDSA for ants?
it’s ASCII plain-text, try decode it
