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 🤍

  • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Nothing is holding hurd back. Debian and GNU Guix both ship hurd. The world has failed hurd instead.

    Hurd will never accept firmware blobs or proprietary drivers. Thus, it will not work on OEMs who use those tactics for their machines. You are still able to install hurd in a VM as those have libre standards.

    This is true for all GNU packages, not just hurd.

    • clutchmatic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Oh that’s sad. The nature of commerce and competition means that proprietary stuff will never go away because making closed stuff is the way MBAs are taught to create “competitive advantage”