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 🤍

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s a joke about how UNIX timestamps work. They count milliseconds from January 1st 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, which is 4pm the day before in PST. So the happy coincidence is that they invented UNIX at the very millisecond when its clock starts.

    There, ruined the joke.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      21·
      1 year ago

      Oh right, the UNIX epoch actually starts when UNIX was invented

      Somehow, I didn’t expect that…