Happy 31st Birthday, Linux!

9to5 Linux ^ | 25 August 2022 | Marius Nestor

[ShadowAce]

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve used Linux Mint on my laptop for 5 years and use Windoze only for programs that I absolutely cannot find on Linux. If it requires a reboot, it is done in 2 minutes. NO 45 minute reboot and updates.

[Pollard]

and Ubuntu will be 18 next month.

[Pollard]

Same here. Kubuntu is my daily driver. dual boot alongside Win 7 Pro which is not allowed to connect and has updates turned off. Tuns like the day I installed it. So does Kubuntu for that matter but it gets regular updates. Speaking if which.

[GaltAdonis]

[Pollard]

update done - 2 minutes - no restart - was a little one, 5.3mb

[so_real]

I wish government was like Linux ... in the sense that though it's literally everywhere, you wouldn't know it, because it stays in the background out of your way and just works extremely well without intruding or imposing anything upon you.

[bigbob]

Really like how well Linux Mint Cinnamon runs on $30 Chrome boxes from eBay. Just wish I could get VNC to work with Cinnamon vs just xfce,

[AppyPappy]

if [ -f 0826.log ]
then
echo “Happy birthday”
fi

[isthisnickcool]

I met Linus online at that time. We ported what we were doing on SCO to Linux. Linux has been very very good to me.

[ShadowAce]

That’s pretty cool.

[Openurmind]

My first Mint 18.3 install is 6 years old and still problem free. And I have never updated it once... :)

[unixfox]

We ported what we were doing on SCO to Linux.

Wow, I got to do a bit of that myself. Heady days indeed.

[TomGuy]

I’ve used Linux Mint on my laptop ... If it requires a reboot, it is done in 2 minutes.

I have a 5 year old Linux Mint Toshiba laptop, i-3. It had a regular laptop hard drive. Recently, I replaced that HD with a 500MB Solid State drive. I am running Mint 20.3. When I need to reboot, it loads in about 12-15 seconds. The old drive took at least a full minute or more.

Solid State drives are the way to go anymore. I paid around $50 for the one I use in the Toshiba laptop.

I haven't upgraded to Mint 21. I have read that some are having trouble with it. I will reconsider when Mint 21.1 comes out.

[isthisnickcool]

We built what might have been one of the first large Intel based servers. I used an EISA motherboard, experimental I/O cards with 16 drives. I naked it Frankenstein because it looked like hell with all the ribbon cables and that I was pushing cold air in to the cases using a spot cooler. We setup a database on it that had over 22 million records.

After that and up until right now I jumped from technology to technology and today everything is cloud based.

I’m still having a ball. Haven’t worked in years. Lol.

[Paal Gulli]

Linux wasn’t ‘born,’ it was grafted off UNIX. The output from “data +%s” is proof of that.

In its tiny little penguin heart, Linux believes it was born on January 1st, 1970.

[ShadowAce]

That’s merely a POSIX standard.

[zeugma]

The output from “data +%s” is proof of that.

Not familiar with the 'data' command. Is that something similar to 'date'?

$ date +%s
1661537451
$

[Organic Panic]

Ah the good old days when I didn’t need Winblows. a 200mhz pentium with Open Office (I think that is what the M$ office clone was) was all I needed. Now I’m stuck with garbage Windows.