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 🤍

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Scandals like the proprietary Nvidia driver (which will now get its home in nonfree firmware) gets to happen (and will continue to happen) because the precedent was set.

    Doesn’t this depend a lot on the vendors having a lock-in on the GPU market? Semiconductor manufacturing is super expensive and there is little incentive for Nvidia to release a Free as in Libre device driver. There aren’t any FOSS GPUs in development so FOSS drivers can’t be made.

    So we either have the choice of accepting proprietary drivers or just not using the functionality of GPUs.

    • jsncEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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      • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        So we either have the choice of accepting proprietary drivers or just not using the functionality of GPUs.

        Thats just life.

        If you’re willing to accept that, then why are you so critical of Linus? The fact that you can build a fully free version of Linux seems like the best of both worlds. From your perspective: get market share now by allowing non-free components, and then eventually transition them out while maintaining compatibility with the majority of the ecosystem.

        • jsncEnglish
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          1 year ago

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          • Aatube@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            We do in fact not have much control over non-free software especially when they have a monopoly and exclusive features.

            There is a(n) (unofficial) version of Linux that strips away all the non-free blobs. So we do have a completely free OS. Not to mention BSD.

            We get market share by being more free, not by making ruinous compromises.

            Tell that to Windows.

            • jsncEnglish
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              1 year ago

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              • Aatube@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                I agree with the first part. By unofficial I meant not from the Linux maintainers.

                Yes, but in the end, Windows still has all that market share.