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 🤍

  • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 年前

    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.

      • Aatube@kbin.social
        1·
        1 年前

        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.

          • Aatube@kbin.social
            1·
            1 年前

            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.