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Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.

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@torvalds Welcome to the Fediverse!

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@torvalds you're on Mastodon now? Attached image is my reaction.

(source:
https://dragon.style/@xinjinmeng/109742491044943466 )

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@torvalds Welcome to the fediverse!

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@torvalds Torvalds on the fediverse

What da Torvalds doin

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@torvalds Thank you so much for providing the world with such a fantastic operating system!

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@orowith2os @torvalds Probably writing a stupid microblog tracker that will be used by everyone in a few weeks ;).

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@torvalds i never noticed Linux 1.0 coincided with Pi Day!

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@torvalds Finally! Cool to see you here 😜 👍

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Dean¯\_(ツ)_/¯ archlinux 🖖

Edited 8 days ago

Seems Linus is on masto for real (the instance for kernel devs) Let's see if he gets 'moderated' 😂

'torvalds@social.kernel.org'

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@torvalds
A post that doesn't promise anything.

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@torvalds welcome to the Fediverse, Linus!

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@torvalds 2024 Linux 1 will be 30 :)axoproud

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@torvalds i love you linus torvalds thank you for creating linux

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@torvalds Welcome to the , had not seen the server social.kernel.org before but it looks like a great community!

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@torvalds now make an account for rms
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@psymar No, @torvalds is using instead.

Edit: I'm told it's no longer Pleroma but a fork of Pleroma called .

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@torvalds welcome, me and my friends wish you all the best in life
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@torvalds From the Random Guy on the internet. We met briefly at your talk at the University of New Hampshire here in the US in the mid-90s when 1.0 for Alpha rolled out. I lost my signed CD of that distro, and regret losing it to this day :-)

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@psymar @torvalds Alt4You: Xenia (the humanoid fox shaped linux mascot)watching out a window and saying 'YES…HA HA HA… YES!'
Her dark tshirt has 'SUDO' written on it.

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@torvalds this will either go really good or very very bad
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Thanks for kernel, Linus
Дякую

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0𝚡𝚊𝟷𝚋𝚊𝚊𝟷𝚋𝚊𝚊𝟷𝚋𝚊𝚊𝟷𝚋𝚊

@torvalds welcome to fedi
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@torvalds

It would be interesting to investigate how the very first version of Linux could be reproduced and bootstrapped without Linux itself and without any closed source software like UNIX from the past.

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@torvalds
Welcome to the Fediverse, Mr. Torvalds!

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@vbabka @torvalds @psymar Thanks for the update! Don't forget to update the documentation, too: https://korg.docs.kernel.org/social.html

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@torvalds welcome Linus! Please provide us some proof that it's really you 😅

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@vbabka @chpietsch @psymar @torvalds I've updated the docs -- the changes will show up once the cache expires.
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@torvalds Welcome to fediverse!
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@torvalds Welcome to the fediverse! After a long hiatus after the Google+ shutdown, you are back online. Glad you aren’t using Mastodon.

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@vbabka @chpietsch @torvalds @psymar what you're referring to as "Mastodon" is, in fact, the "Fediverse", or as I've recently taken to calling it, "Fedi"...
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@torvalds

Linus is On fedi.

cleen_linux
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@90

Linux was designed for the Optiplex 9020

@torvalds

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@torvalds Oh my, do I remember the a.out days before ELF libraries and multicore support.

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@torvalds
YOUR KERNEL FUCKING SUCKS, EAT SHIT
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@torvalds hey mr torvalds how are you doing on this fine day
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@torvalds 29 years of being raped in the ass im so fucking TIRED of it FUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKK
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@sysrq @torvalds at least pretend you have good manners

Mr Torvalds, your monolithic kernel is inferior to GNU+HURD
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@xue @torvalds
TORVALDS, YOU HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A COMPILER, YOU FACE CONSTANT HUMILIATION FROM TERRY DAVIS
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@7666 @xue @torvalds
LINUX IS A SHIT OUTDATED KERNEL, FIGHT ME
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
>How many drivers kernel you use have?
incomprehensible
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds
its not like you dont use mouse because you dont want to, its because you cant (lack of support)
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@torvalds 2100 is the year of the HURD desktop
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@torvalds I had to look at this post a few times to realize Linus is actually on the cativerse

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@torvalds Remember: If you fediblock, you are using communism.
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
what you originally said made no sense
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@torvalds

Funny Linux man is here nana_smug

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@torvalds no way, i can't believe you're here!

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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds i didnt mean like inside kernel or something, but device drivers that can work with your OS
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@torvalds hello linus i hope you are having a good day today. Here is a picture of a happy mole
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I'm still confused, please rephrase everything from the beginning
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I've used a usb mouse with plan9
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
yes, also I run plan9 as a cpu server so I don't have to deal with drivers 0330
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Oh shit did Linux tech tips make an account
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds no
you dont use it
you only pretend to use it to get some internet points
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He just realised racemixing is a mistake.
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I last used it yesterday, and the day before
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I need linux for video games
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@torvalds Your server name is priceless. Welcome to the fediverse!

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@xue @7666 @torvalds
also fuck you, when I feel lost I run back to plan9, it's my digital weighted blanket
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds i dont have to, your internal sense of shame will do it for me
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@torvalds Crazy how Linus from the popular show Linus Tech Tips found his way here
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I hate it, it's too fucking big, it's based on kernel designs from the 70s, building it is annoying, the software built on it is subpar, etc.
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds and yet you cant live without it
what you gonna do? run to Microsoft ?
linux have you by the balls, admit it
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
I'm just making the best of a bad situation
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@sysrq @7666
@torvalds
be a man and either thank mr Torvald or stop using linux at all
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@xue @7666 @torvalds
thank Torvalds for what? putting os development back 20 years?
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds
Next time i see you, im gonna make you apologize and write a poem for Mr Torvalds
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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds
i am gonna ask you to take shower first, i dont want to catch lice from you
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@torvalds There are arguably more important dates in Linux history, such as September 27, 1983

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@SuperDicq @torvalds Linux was not even out in 1983 when RMS wrote his open letter.

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Bennolius 😷💉⁴ | ☀️💨🔋| あ-Я

@torvalds kiitos

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@torvalds hello, welcome, and thank you for Linux. We owe you a lot.

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@sysrq @7666 @torvalds
Just admit defeat, apologize to Mr Torvald and get 3 catholic masses in intention of linux development
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@torvalds Welcome to the Fediverse!
social.kernel.org, no way!

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@torvalds
This is really Linus Torvalds. I'm pleasure meet you. I want to speak with you but I imagine you won't have time. So here is my points.

1. Thank for making freedom for humankind. We don't want total slavery. No Microsoft.

2. Why kernel, on smartphone can't be updated. My mother has ZTE blade a610 mediatek and it use 3.x kernel so I can't upstream it to lates android. My mother is house cleaner and she gain 10 euros hour part 1

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@torvalds
So I have to intent go and repair computers and safe money 200 or little more money and buy realme 5 pro. Now officially it supper android 11. But in Google they have android 13 and android 14. It use old kernel too. I can't upstream it too. remember if kernel source is new latest Android is gonna work, there is mediatek who work on latest Android 13. What I want say is. PLEASE make some automatic thing to upgrade part 2

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Prove you're the real Linus Torvalds by telling us what you think about Emacs
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help my usb fleshlight doesnt work on linux, how fix ? please sir !
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@torvalds
Like peoples that don't have developer skills they kernel. I'm compiling cherish, crdroid and lineage with GitHub help. From one years I'm like 12 hours and more front of laptop to try compile much better stock ROM and it don't work. There is lag. I with help reach 4.9.337 and latest ketnel is 6. On Android 13 there is missing thing in kernel. If you don't believe me look here this is my entire gitlab: https://bgzashtita.es/git/Android-smartphones

Part 3

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@torvalds
Take precaution. There is every day poor people's because of FAULT government. There is agenda 2030 and please don't accept it. They try slavery people's. They rey have 5 min city. You can live in like bill gates in 3000 M2. Building but there is peopels who live like us in 60 M2 building. I was abused for being emigrant in Spain I can't work. I know you HATE BULGARIANS. you can't imagine how is to BE POOR. you can comment: this is not my fault. Part 4

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@torvalds
Yes this is your fault. You are genius. You know what is gonna happens every day. We poor people's don't have knowledge like you to know what government is doing. I'm calling all hackers to protect us. They try install facial cameras and this is slavery. Remember Linus. You too was young and free, running on streets, jumping, doing every day stuff. People's have rights to be totally free. You can help us everybody. Part 5

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@torvalds
Linus you had rights to live, so leave other peoples have the same rights. As for kernel, force mobile company to implement something to can easy upgrade kernel. When I get cherry-pick patch for 4.9.337 wow kernel system UI 4un fast but some times have lags and and much lags. We don't have 300 euros buy every years new smartphone. This is not smartphone this is shit phone. You know better that every new update is better.

Part 6

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@fartkart @torvalds i got a cigarette lighter that heats itself with usb why isn't it working on linux?>?? (im smoking crack in a joint)
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@torvalds
3. Kernel source for smartphone is NOT CHERRY-PICKED. force móviles company to cherry-pick entire kennel source. I don't have knowledge how to cherry-pick entire kernel source. Because thee was cherry-pick from maybe 7 years old on 4.9.337 SO OLD cherry-pick to fix holes in kernel. Linus... If they don't use it they are breaking entirely LINUX. yes Linux is smartphone too. Where is kernel there is Linux too. Kisses like frien

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@torvalds Hi and welcome to the Fediverse!

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@torvalds Welcome! Great to see you here!

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@torvalds When you asked a bunch of people to send CP to your session what did you mean by that
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@torvalds just for fun as usual? =D

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@torvalds Oh well, hello there! flan_peek And welcome to the fediverse! nkoWave

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@thomas a password to the git repo should do the thing, am I right? @torvalds

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@torvalds 1. Tervetuloa en. 2. How do we know it's really you? 3. You need to start using

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@psymar @torvalds That's a Pleroma. Not mastodon.
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@torvalds Congrats on joining the fediverse, it's amazing to see an instance for kernel developers! 🤯

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@torvalds dear Linus, happy to see you in the Fediverse.

I collected the history of Linux and your intellectual challenge with Tanenbaum in this book, released under a CC BY/NC/ND license.

https://archive.org/details/hackerscienziatiepionieri

(There is also an english edition with ISBN 9788184952018 )

I mentioned that just to confirm that Linux history is part of technology history and world history.

My personal and professional life wouldn't have been the same without , you have my deepest gratitude.

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@torvalds
Given a large enough window, you can find something significant about every date!

Welcome!

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@torvalds @vmstan Godspeed, but I don’t see how this is going to compete with SunOS and IRIX

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Welcome to the Fediverse @torvalds !
I am not sure if this is some kind of record, but it seems you have now been welcomed by users from seven different platforms (Mastodon, Calckey, Unkn(?), Akkoma, Pleroma, Foundkey and Friendica). No walled gardens here 😁
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@torvalds Welcome to the revolution Linus!

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@torvalds Welcome. Dirk gave you away. 😂

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@torvalds

Welcome Linus.
And thank you so much for everything Linux that you have done. I started using Linux around 2005 and by 2012 it was my only OS on all my computers and still is to this day.
I can't thank you enough for my freedom and my online security abilities that I have learned about from using Linux.

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@peterkotrcka @thomas @torvalds if you're using password auth to protect your git repository... you might want to reconsider your choices :)

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@torvalds You're a hero and I wish you all the best, assuming of course that this is really you.

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And from GNU Social!

Welcome to Fedi, @torvalds !
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@peterkotrcka @thomas @torvalds Respectfully, given that he’s running on an instance on the kernel.org domain, I think that’s pretty definitive. :)

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@torvalds

Im going to share this post with my family. They will have no idea what to think of it.
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@torvalds

Glad to see you here! I saw you at a talk in San Francisco around the turn of the millennium.

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@torvalds I remember that announcement! I remember groaning, "yay, another toy version of Unix like Minix for us to play with," and then griping at you because it was in "C" rather than in some more object-oriented language and was monolithic rather than a microkernel. Interesting how this monolithic kernel has gotten some rather microkernal-ish features over the years ;).

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@torvalds any chance you can develop a sane “Twitter” like platform or is that asking too much from humanity?

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@torvalds Welcome to the good social media! Enjoy your stay!

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@torvalds

Hey - welcome to the bright side.
I hope it's you 🤗

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@torvalds fedi is too mainstream come join nostr

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@torvalds I've been using it for like 25 of those years. 🤠

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@torvalds welcome to the open and decentralized social network - just like Linux, but for social!

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@torvalds Greetings. Great to see you in this place of relative sanity.

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@torvalds So the US Pi day is actually commemorating Linux 1.0?

Sort of like Christmas being slapped on top of Saturnalia.

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@torvalds Hyvää päivänjatkoa Linus. Tervetuloa kerhoon.

Kippis!

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@torvalds Great job, Linus. Just a hobby, I guess?

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@torvalds I never realized that March 14th is a super geeky day, Pi day and Linux's anniversary!

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@torvalds welcome. great to have you here!

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@torvalds oh wow! I remember you announcing this back in the day. It was such a milestone. 29 years! Amazing.

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@mfeilner @torvalds Yeah, now I can brag to my wife about my Nerdochat. Of course, she’ll say – Who?

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@torvalds
you can either be on the fediverse or productive :-/

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@torvalds There is your first Usenet announcement on comp.os.minix on August 25th 1991. This is a date some digital historians consider important.

I don't know of any Usenet servers that hold messages from 1991. The Message-ID I have on my copy is: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>.

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@hasmis @torvalds This is the fediverse. No corporation here to know that I'm no dog... or am I? .

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@torvalds Hmm. I started with 0.99pl14. When was that released?

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@gnusuario @SuperDicq As an analogy, the Boston Tea Party is considered a key event in US history, even though the US didn’t exist at the time.

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@notclacke @SuperDicq Do you mean the Free Software Foundation was important even though Linux Foundation didn't exist at the time?

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@gnusuario @notclacke Yes, without the GNU project the Linux project wouldn’t be where it was today.

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@SuperDicq @notclacke But that's not Linux history, that's GNU history.

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@gnusuario @notclacke @SuperDicq

1994-03-14 was an important day for GNU, as it wouldn't have been what it is today without a readily available kernel with good hardware support.

1989-09-27 was an important day for Linux, as there wouldn't have been a "won't be big or professional like GNU" without GNU.

GNU/Linux history is GNU history.
GNU/Linux history is Linux history.

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@torvalds Indeed, not "big and professional like GNU", rather, big and professional IN ITS OWN WAY, and ON ITS OWN MERITS.

The router makers and phone makers could have just gone *BSD (Apple did for MacOS X's userland), but they chose Linux.

I think that says a lot. 🙂

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Thank you for making this wonderful network, @twizzay
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