Matija
Linus TorvaldsSome of you know today as ฯ-day.
But the real insiders know that today is the 30th anniversary of the 1.0 release of Linux.
MOVED TO POLYMATHS (Krafter)
foax@torvalds congratulations. How does it feel to maintain one of the most important software parts of modern civilization?
Random Damage ๐ป@torvalds already?!
Time sure flies
Joe โ๐@torvalds Thanks so much for all that work. I first ran Linux before that, in early 1993.
Bill StatlerHappy Anniversary, and thank you!
adacosta@torvalds Its come a far way, I see myself switching to it full time in the next decade. Currently its a VM I use everyday.
Lemonheep (Heated From Fire) 
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Lamp@torvalds @fcktheworld587 o i forgot
Tim Chambers@torvalds Happy anniversary!
Padawan 
@torvalds Not bad for something that is just a hobby, nothing as big or professional as GNU.
Paul Lalonde@torvalds 0.11 showed me how MMUs work. Thanks.
โKraftyโ #NoKings@torvalds best day before my life!
ilja 
@torvalds whoo, congratz! ๐
skywalkersHand@torvalds Making my life easier every day. Thank you so much!๐ซถ๐ค
Kai Ahnung
April (@ 
Linux HQ) The Pink โโพโถโโคโฝโ [AS208709]
Rye@[email protected] @[email protected] but only trans catgirl programmers xD
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Sashin@torvalds Are you actually Linus Torvalds?
David Bramian
Whitepaws &?๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๐ฑ@ruawhitepaw @torvalds That was autocorrect ๐ญ
George Raptis 
@torvalds happy b-day to the best kernell out there!
Ariane 
Noxie@torvalds 30 years ago: I did a thing, here's a floppy if you wanna play with it.
Today: runs basically our entire society.
That's quite the glow up of a project 
meisterdonIs this a coincidence?
But 3/14 is ฯ-day, isn't it?
Yeah, I'm an insider ๐ Happy birthday Linux and thank your father for your birth ๐ฅณ
EffJot@torvalds I've always considered myself late to the game. But looking back now, the perspective seems different. I started with a November 1995 SuSE using a 1.2.13 Kernel. Suddenly I feel old.๐
Morten Juhl-Johansen@torvalds Thank you so, so much.
Andreas, DJ3EI, he/himSince the earth has been known to be well approximated by a ball, the concept of "today" has become more complicated than one would wish.
Iirc, you were based in Finland when releasing Linux 1.0. From the point of view of that part of the world, you posted this anniversary toot on March 15.
Personally, I booted Linux for the first time Feb 6, 1994 and have been a user (and promoter, in my small way) of Linux continously ever since that year. So a big thank you ๐!
Tobias@torvalds Happy anniversary! And thank you.
Mike Spooner@torvalds I still have fond memories of 0.99pl14.
Gerardo Lisboa@shelldozer @torvalds 0.99 pl13 was not that pleasant...
Ric@torvalds an amazing achievement for sure, but also somehow absurd to think that none of these big operating systems existed at all such a short time ago.
Pixel Dunn@torvalds better :)
Frank Wijnans@torvalds I remember the event, but not the date.
Mair@[email protected] thank you Linux Torvalds
Siff@torvalds Happy anniversary!
Compi@torvalds Happy birthday, Linux!
Vincent392
Lars Brinkhoff@torvalds It takes an extreme outsider to know it is the anniversary of the announcement of the PDP-6 computer.
DougMerritt (log๐
= ๐งlog๐)@dougmerritt @torvalds Or... stay with me now... port ITS to something like RISC-V?
@larsbrinkhoff @torvalds
Maybe with a slight architectural variation; battle cry: "72 bits oughta be enough for anyone!"
Maybe with a slight architectural variation; battle cry: "72 bits oughta be enough for anyone!"
Light๐งโ@torvalds
Only TIL the date of this historically important date. The only other dates I have noted was the date of the public announcement and the initial release of Linux. But I feel this date is even more important the 1.0.0 version needs some love and deserves to be celebrated ๐๏ธ๐ฅฐ๏ธ.
๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ Happy anniversaryโผ๏ธ
Only TIL the date of this historically important date. The only other dates I have noted was the date of the public announcement and the initial release of Linux. But I feel this date is even more important the 1.0.0 version needs some love and deserves to be celebrated ๐๏ธ๐ฅฐ๏ธ.
๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ Happy anniversaryโผ๏ธ
Keiko@torvalds :( I feel old now. I remember compiling 0.99, dd-ing it to a floppy, trying to boot it, and it panicing because I'd forgotten to include math copro emulation on a 386SX. Start the build process again, only to end up with an image that didn't fit on a 1.44Mb floppy.
Jรถrg ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ@torvalds My first contact with Linux was sometime in 1992. I think it was the first half of the year. The version was something around 0.7x as far as I remember. Maybe a bit earlier version. I downloaded it an 5,25โ floppies in the university and installed it on my AMD 386DX40.
Since around 25 years now Iโm mainly using windows. Especially because I used my PC for gaming.
But these times are over and I start thinking about Linux again. Just donโt know which distribution to use
Since around 25 years now Iโm mainly using windows. Especially because I used my PC for gaming.
But these times are over and I start thinking about Linux again. Just donโt know which distribution to use
copsewoodI first used Linux when a student loaned me a Red Hat 3.0.3 CD - version released 1 May 1996 according to Wikipedia - and I booted it and was soon able to get it doing useful stuff in text mode, including running some of my shell scripts developed on Solaris.
Have made much use of it since on all classes of device from embedded routers to NAS, to desktops/laptops, mobile phones and cloud servers.
้ๆๅ็๏ผๅฑๅ็ถฒ่กๆตช็๏ผ@torvalds so why did Linux decide to release on this day lol
Gianf:) ๐ฎ๐น
Happy anniversary and thank you very much!!! ๐
Simon ZerafaMany Happy Returns to the Linux Kernel ๐
I think that should be Tau Day today? ๐๐คทโโ๏ธ
Are are also celebrating approximation day in July?
soaproot@simonzerafa @torvalds @geerlingguy Tau Day on 6/28, about a month from now. Pi approximation day on 22/7, a few weeks after that. We have your mathematical holidays covered! Less than ten months to Half Tau Day.
@soaproot @torvalds @geerlingguy
Indeed cold medications affects my ability to distinguish 5/28 from 6/28 ๐ตโ๐ซ
Thanks for the correction ๐๐
blausand ๐
v4rd4453n@torvalds thatโs something
Eddie@torvalds *Only* 30 years of this? It feels as if it has always been!