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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+88KenMo, way to make a complete fool of yourself. :)
- MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8015 Years ago it started. Amazing how far its come.
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+78...and he was in Finland when he wrote the os.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+73And I might add, the USA is looking to have one of the *lowest* adoption rates of Linux of any country - it is much more broadly accepted outside of the US. Not to mention that the majority of the Linux distros used originate outside the US today (Ubuntu from Africa, Mandriva from France, Knoppix from Germany...).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65And yet look at what Linux has done compared to what YOU have done in the same time period! Tisk, tisk.
- ilikedginger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50Any time now it will start liking girls and want to go on dates.
- SimonGray, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48And SUSE also from Germany.
- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47@hosiah
Ubuntu and KNOPPIX were built off of Debian. Debian was created by an American named Ian Murdock at Purdue University. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Heh, well, Unix, the system Linux recreates, was born in Bell Labs in 1969...when *I* was born. Check that, yo?
- peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45Well heres a toast to the past and future of linux.
Cheers! - rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42My birthdate falls on the release date of windows 3.1
:( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43Thumbs up just for being a 40-year-old quake player.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Current day reaction:
WHERES THE PROOF LIKE THE ***** YOU NEWBIE COULD WRITE YOUR OWN OS!!! LOL!! - icecubed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free."
- Linus Torvalds
( for more Linus' quotes visit http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds ) - RustIndy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41It's an operating system unencumbered by a huge corporation more concerned with money than people. It's a toy that powers some of the world's fastest clusters and most popular websites.
And frankly, if you take an hour to compare distributions, it's quite easy to find a distro of Linux that is already pre-configured for your primary tasks (like video editing, for example, or 3D modelling and rendering, or audio recording and engineering, or desktop publishing, or games, etc.)
If all toys were like that, we'd have colonies on Mars by now for sure! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Herolint:
Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a private company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.
Even though it's an open-source project, where people from all over the world contribute to the development (as with all other open-source projects), it's as much African as Knoppix is German. - speel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38People seemed nicer then.
- Kupop, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40Funny that, my birthday is the same day as the birthday of Linux!
- steveoa3d, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37I was 25 when this came out, now I have a XGL 3D desktop and just got done playing some Q4 in Linux. My how far it has come !
- Pyrogen, on 10/12/2007, -8/+41Um, both Ubuntu and Debian are distributions of Linux... WTF?
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Cinelerra is a great video editor. Mind you, it's not Adobe, but it's still really good. Also, MS TrueType fonts are installable, if that's your cup of tea.
You, sir, are trolling. - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36I loves me some Linux.
- therernospoons, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Here's some history for you: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
- kilworth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28The best part is how shure he is about the non-porting..
And now I have Linux on my Nintendo DS :) - Legionnaire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Wow, the Digg community is even younger than I expected. The fact that this many young kids know what Linux is (and run it, and think it's cool) says alot about how far it's come. I think it also guarantees Linux a stronger user base, more developers, and therefore a greater market share in the future.
Long Live Linux. - Pyrogen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I don't know what your waiting for... Linux is already used as the core of several enterprise class operating systems. (Red Hat, SUSE, CentOS, etc...)
Desktop Linux is still not mainstream, but its getting there. - RailsAddict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Congratulations on offering the most uninformed opinion that I've ever seen on Digg! Sure, Linux is a ways away from being mainstream on the desktop, but all those desktops would be pretty worthless without internet access that is provided by many flavors of Unix/Linux/BSD, that in turn give you access to the Web, which a majority of is run off of this so-called "toy" OS....
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22The worst butchering of linux I heard was pronounced "Lynk-sees"
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31Linux was made when I was two months old.
I should have gotten into Linux faster! - Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"There are not decent font packages for Linux. Fonts are amazingly ugly."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't "pretty fonts" for toy operating systems?
"No one seriously considers Redhat or SuSe as real enterprise operating systems."
Tell that to all of the businesses running on RHEL.
"They can't even log on to a WIndows domain."
http://www.linux-sxs.org/networking/nt4dom_samba.html
Doesn't this "Windows domain" thing COME from UNIX-based systems?
Has benlevon EVER said anything useful or made a valid argument? - Kruncher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Clink!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1940 year old Quake player? I'm 50 and still playing! And I still code software every day. It's not the age, it's the mindset.
- icecubed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Happy birthday 2 u 2
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Apparently someone got it confused with http://www.linksys.com
- Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20@benlevon
If you're going to troll, at least TRY not to make it look so obvious.
Nonetheless, you do bring up a point that I'd like to comment on. I believe it is humorous when people belittle things (in your case calling Linux a "toy") that are completely outside their ability to comprehend. - ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Someone seems a little angry for never reading the manual and always asking where the "Any" key is on the keyboard..... tsk tsk
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Well I was 6 and already bashing away at DOS on my own computer my grandpa bought me. It was some old 286 I believe. Though I didn't know what the hell I was doing most of the time; I learned many things. I didn't even have Windows until a few years later when my parents bought a computer and I snag Windows 3.1, pirating started at a very early age for me ;)
- rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20happy birthday!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21If you love Ubuntu so much, you're better off celebrating the birthdays of Debra and Ian Murdock.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Cling!!!
(that wasnt a toast, it was the sound of a chair flying across the room in redmond) - Omega697, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Jesus Christ you guys are young. I was at least 11 :o)
- SniperSlap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Regarding pronounciation...
I was still a bit young when my brother first started toying with this strange operating system called Linux in 1992. His impression at the time (with Linux only a year old) was that it was pronounced "Lye-nucks".
Time passed and support for sound cards came along. The little file played as a test - as some might recall - featured Linus saying Linux:
http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/
As we can hear here, his name is "Leenus" and he pronounces "Leenux" as "Leenux".
I've always had a hoot with this one. Because the primary driving market in our world is American, we are often subject to American pronounciation foibles. Tyre, cheez and all. I could also stereotype and say that it was read by someone and said before this clarification came along, long after the pronounciation took root.
If you ask me, we're all wrong. But "Linnix" is so unforgivably American it deserves to go up there with spell checkers and "color/colour" & "behavior/behaviour", etc.... In all honesty, "Linnix" seems easier for knowitall geekheads and flash-banner advertisers to say rather than "Lye-nucks". It almost forces a geeky voice onto anyone who tries to pronounce it, which is a side-reason as to why I hate the pronounciation.
"Linnicks, bwaigheay!"
(That nerdy scientist from Simpsons)
To this day, I say "Lye-nucks" if only to probe out those who think they know something and those who realize it's not worth giving a sh!nt about. If others say "Linnix", I don't really care, it wasn't their mistake to learn it as that.
So, let's not get too excited on how it is pronounced, you only show your inexperience when you obsess over how Linux is said...Which really can only be done with a stylin', classy Northern European accent.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINUX! - RustIndy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@benlevon
You should research your positions before you start shooting your fingers off.
First, *some* distributions don't include "mp3" as a valid codec by default, and some do. Almost all distributions do include media players capable of playing damn near any format that exists with perhaps 2 or 3 exceptions due to DRM (and there are even ways around that now). And almost all distributions that include some sort of package manager can be playing MP3s and DVDs in a matter of minutes. Hard? No. But it does take an extra step most of the time. So, technically, an MP3 playes *does* ship with most distributions, but often requires an update before MP3 will actually work.
There is, in fact, a fully capable NTFS driver available for Linux (and included or optional in most recent distributions - and it's even free, heaven forbid), and when Linux is connecting to a network share it's not even needed anyways.
If you don't like the fact that a certain distribution doesn't include some software that requires a license fee, then try another distribution. There are several that you can actually pay money for that do include licensed software and drivers (thus the cost). Or you can get a different distribution and install the software you want yourself.
benlevon, you obviously don't have any recent facts to back up your claims. Please either educate yourself a bit, or continue getting owned and dugg down. - chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Thanks Linus
- RustIndy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17@benlevon
Care to back up your claim that almost ALL Apache installs are on Windows machines? Did you bother to take a quick look around that "biased" site to find out that only 2 of the Top 10 hosts use Linux (because that would have strengthened your position - right up until we pointed out that only 2 of them use Windows 2000/2003 and 4 use FreeBSD). You're trying to tell me that at least 80% of the Apache servers on the internet are on Windows software, right (I think 80% is a reasonable equivalent to "almost all")? Consequently, you're trying to convince us that the remaining 20% is all other OSes combined - Linux, BSD, Solaris, UNIX, Netware, OSX, QNX, and various niche OSes.
I don't buy it. Even if Windows runs 60% of the Apache servers out there, those other systems outnumber it (that would be Windows running IIS or Apache being outnumbered).
And buddy, if you don't believe that Linux can login to a Windows domain (with Active Directory, even!), then by all means, stay out of it and stick to Windows. You'll never be comfortable anywhere but in "explorer.exe" no matter how many people tell you you're wrong about Linux. - G33k0ft3chz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Well then happy birthday!
- KMehthas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13wow... 62k compressed, i wonder how long my 2400baud modem would have taken to download that...
- 1coreduo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@benlevon
"Why does an mp3 player not ship with most distributions? Patent issues, Linux is too poor to afford to license essential technology such as connecting to a Windows domain or full NTFS support."
By the same logic:
Why does an DVD player / Office software / not ship with Windows (choose version)? Money issues, Windows is too greedy ...
This could simply go on and on .... -
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