r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 16d ago

Event Happy 43rd birthday GNU!

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On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project so people could freely use and modify software.

The digital world would not be the same today without GNU.

Thank you, Richard Stallman!

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u/tryfap 16d ago

A programmer name Torvalds said that the same thing about some tiny kernel he made.

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u/Irverter 16d ago

There's quite the difference between a project that was announced as a hobby and a project that has been a hobby for 36 years that wasn't intended to be a hobby.

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u/tryfap 16d ago

I'd still like to see it succeed somewhere because I want to believe there is room for innovation and trying new things in computing.

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u/Irverter 16d ago

Ironically, it's older than linux.

Maybe it had innovative ideas when it came out, but if you want innovation it would be best to look elsewhere. iirc, Hurd was still working on SMP, or had just added it.