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  • I feel special after watching this video

  • Thumbs up if your watching this on nixOS . I bet we aint many but so dudes check it out. nixOS.org ! :) Cheers

  • I am a happy full time linux user, i can deal with all distro

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  • Proud to be a full time linux user!

  • What is the "Linux Operating System"? I've never heard of that before. The only Linux I know of is a kernel.

  • @Toksyuryel =.=' r u kiddin me? ubuntu debian linux mint those are all linux operating systems >>

  • @Xaahu Those are all operating systems that use the Linux kernel. There's no operating system called "Linux", because it's not an operating system- it's a kernel.

  • @Xaahu There is no "linux" operating system. Ubuntu, Debian, Mint are Software distributions that Include Linux, and use it as the Kernel [Debian can run on FreeBSD's Kernel, even on the GNU Mach(With the help of Hurd, of course)]. The operating system is called GNU. It runs on top of a kernel, called Linux, but can run on other kernels too, and additional software is provided by the Distribution maintainers, or by your self. (BTW, i AM a GNU user :D)

  • @merkur32123 Don't be a GNUazi douche. There are far more userspace components in Linux beyond GNU. Linux isn't a GNU project, X.org isn't a GNU project, Gnome isn't a GNU project, KDE isn't a GNU project, Apache isn't a GNU project.  I could go on all day, but you should get the point by now. One could just as easily port BSD's libc et al, to Linux. The OS doesn't belong to GNU, GNU is only a small portion the software, and Linus rejected any such generic naming convention.

  • @aidanjt As i said: "and additional software is provided by the Distribution maintainers, or by your self.", this includes X, KDE, Etc. And i never said Linux is a GNU project, i said GNU runs on it, and makes it usable. If you remove X from a Linux Computer, it works, so we won't call it X/Linux, but if you remove everything of GNU, you get an unusable system. And yes, you can port BSD stuff to Linux, but no one has done that. (BTW, Gnome is a GNU project iirc.)

  • @merkur32123 Nonsense, there's plenty of non-GNU userspace available for Linux nowadays, I used BSD's libc as an example of pre-GNU userspace Linus could have used back in the day. The GNU components are entirely swapable.

    And no, GNOME isn't a GNU project, it's a GNOME Foundation project. Actually now that I think about it, even Glibc isn't a GNU developed project anymore, that's Red Hat/Ulrich Drepper's pet now.

  • @aidanjt Again, you didn't get what i was trying to say. I never said: "Linux is just a kernel, and GNU is everything else", i just said Linux it self is Obsolete, and it needs some utilities, that are packed in every Distribution, called GNU, and also a bunch of other. I simplified it by calling GNU a Operating system (Even if they now have a working Pure-GNU OS, called HURD, that runs on the GNU Mach, and is jet very unstable). Other apps are there depending on the Distribution.

  • @merkur32123 @merkur32123 What you did was try to correct someone using the generic OS reference 'Linux' in a valid manner and instead giving all the glory to GNU. If someone doesn't specify a specific distribution, that doesn't automatically give GNU the title of globular placeholder.

  • Anyone here know about some good noob distros outside of Ubuntu and Mint?

  • @fremag123vif Peppermint OS and Zorin OS

  • @fremag123vif Debian is Rock-solid, and is similar to Ubuntu (Ubuntu is based on Debian)

    Arch linux is Extremly fast, configurable, it's a rolling release, and it gives you only what you ask for.

    Gentoo is EXTREMLY configurable. In fact, you have to compile everything yourself.

    But these 3 Distros are not n00b friendly, so watch out. Once you learn how to use them, they'll be awesome to you!

  • @merkur32123 You forgot Slackware

  • sudo linux-rules --v !!

  • This is amazing thumbs up!

  • by the way, the title of your video is totally wrong, since Linux is not an operating system. You should know this more than anyone.

  • nice. I just want to remind you that GPL 3 is ready to be used... ;)

  • XP РУЛИТ LINUX САСЕТ!!!

  • T~T

  • I advocate GNU/Linux.

    Apple and MS suck balls!

  • @Laoch111 come on, I thought we outlived that age..

  • @Laoch111 OS X and Windows have a reason. OS X is for the idiots which can barely turn on their computer and Windows is for Gamers and people stupid as hell.

  • so against SOPA... right?

  • Very funny.

    Linux is Free

    Linux is Cool

    awesome.

  • FREEDOOOOooooOOOoOOooM!!!!

  • Who would dislike this video? Damn haters -.-

  • @Lopesmaio1 Stupid Windows users.

  • @Lopesmaio1 Windows users, Mac users, Bill gates, ghost of steve jobs, etc

  • Páči sa mi Linux. Prajem všetko dobré a držím palce.

  • Love Linux  Long Live Linux

  • Gnu/Linux forever!

    

  • love linux :)

  • AWESOME!

  • "You cant have windows without walls!"

  • thumbs up if you are watching this in 2390. cuz you're a badass time traveler

  • @azlinuxer ha =) i am watching this in 2555 =)

  • @th0ut looool

  • Is there a text only version of this somewhere for those of us who don't watch video or listen to sounds? It would be really nice to see this in text instead.

  • PERFECT!!! more years to come, Linux!

    I bet, what are those 46 (dislikers) up there wishes you. :D

  • Vinod sent me here

  • 46 personas usan windows XP

  • 46 people will be eaten by penguins..

  • What I want to know is who are the 46 users that disliked this video?!

  • @glamdering92 Windows and Mac users :P

  • @MegaEpictroll your a idiot stick with windows your brains doesnt have the power to understand it haahahha

  • yeah, linux for freedom! linux rulez!

  • I love Linux; I love Ubuntu and

    I love Gnome.

  • Sudo pacman -S arch i did i love it. and for the ubuntu people sudo apt-get install ubuntu i love that too.. arch is a rolling distro that is always being updated to the latest stable updates. ubuntu is packaged and good for new users choose your poison both are good operating systems..

  • Ubuntu Studio is fine. Xubuntu is fine. Kubuntu is fine. Ubuntu is okay, I just dont like the gnome shell.

  • Running Ubuntu right now. I love it. Does anyone know any good Linux shells aside from Gnome? Unity isn't cutting it for me and Gnome 3 is just about passable. I've also been interested in other versions of Linux, Ubuntu is great but I'm interested in broadening my Linux-experience. Does anyone have suggestions?

  • @Thrashler try Arch Linux, it's an awesome distro which you can make whatever you want it to be. You can install any shell you want there. Arch may seem complex at first but actually it really is simple and with the ArchWiki documentation anyone can use it. You will also understand how most things work in Linux. As for shells I suggest KDE if you haven't tried it already and E17 seems really nice, even though it's still not a stable release.

  • You should be giving more credit to GNU which was the majority of the OS, most of which existed when Torvalds created the Linux Kernel.

  • I am watching this on an Android which is linux hell yeah

  • 2:36

    ( *)>

    /|| \

    We are the world,

    We are the penguins!

    We are the ones,

    who makes software free,

    So let's start giving... :D

  • @GioGziro95 yuuhuuu !!! And go sell hamburgers to survive !

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  • thumbs up if you are watching this on a linux machine

  • @emoosx openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 here! Linux is the best. Period.

  • Excellent, and I mean EXCELLENT job on the video! Whoever produced this video literally summed up the history of Linux extremely well in less than four minutes. That's impressive! I Loved It!

    LINUX FOR LIFE! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BEATS IT AND IT'S FREE/OPEN-SOURCE as well as 99.9% of the software for Linux!

    opensuse linux blog dot blogspot dot c o m and linuxtweaks dot wordpress dot c o m <---------Visit my Linux Blogs!

  • # rm -r C:\Windows

  • Keep in mind people, linux succeeded for social and economic reasons, not technical reasons. Linux is hardly impressive computer science or programming. Technically it's quite mediocre.

  • @can1neperson clearly you know nothing or very little about linux' position in the servermarket. I can agree to some extent when speaking of desktop-environments, but when talking about servers you're quite simply wrong. For servers, there is nothing as powerful, customizable, inutive and stable as linux.

  • @kjeksomanen I'm not saying it's successful. I'm saying it's successful for non-technical reasons. FreeBSD is more stable and reliable. NetBSD is more configurable. They both have better licensing terms. And UNIXes in general have are very mediocre designs because they're written in C. They get the job done, but it'd be nice to have a better alternative.

  • @can1neperson

    Mediocre as compared with?

  • @WSWarthog Mediocre in absolute terms. But even next to other unix-like operating systems, it doesn't compare well. NetBSD, OpenBSD and even FreeBSD.

  • @can1neperson

    Sounds like you don't think too much about any Unix-like OS. Which operating system would you call 'good' outright then?

  • @WSWarthog What do you mean? I think about them a lot. They're the OS design I know most intimately. The UNIX security model, in particular, is really bad. I don't really know of any good OSes though. I don't use windows, so I don't really know if it's any better, but I'm not holding my breath. And although there aren't really any good OSes, they haven't really made any effort to fix the problems in UNIX. Shitty UNIX security is why we have jackasses like lulzsec.

  • @can1neperson

    If you truly believe that there aren't really any good operating systems, saying that one of them is bad is meaningless because good and bad are of-course relative terms. If everything is bad then nothing is (this might be a bit sophistical but I hope you can see my point).

  • @WSWarthog I don't believe that's necessarily the case. There is good security and there is bad security. UNIXes security is definitely bad. "Better than the rest" is not a synonym for "good."

  • @can1neperson

    I agree; but if nothing better exists you're forced to either improve it until you're satisfied or use it even if it's bad.

  • @WSWarthog Yeah, I use linux because I need to get practical work done. Problems with unix security aren't too big an issue yet for my desktop use because linux isn't too widely used. If desktop linux use increases, that'll be a bigger worry. Server side unix security is a problem. I work around the problems because I have to, but better security would be a godsend.

  • 44+ pepz from Micro$oft has seen this video ^-^

    Nah, okay... Seriously now, it's fantastic! Linux literally takes carries on the fine community, culture and knowledge that has been accumulated by *Nices under the past several decades.

    Still some things could be better along userland applications, but at least there is stable, sound and proof ground for applications to stand upon.

    I think that I've only had like 3 crashes with Linux, ever. With other systems one has not been quite that lucky.

  • Thanks for the video!

  • Long live to Linux, fuck Apple users. You are the douchy milk cow of an evil empire. And you can't use computers for shit.

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  • 20 años de Linux, cada vez más usuarios

  • 43 windows users has been detected.

    Linus Trovalds is the true FATHER OF LINUX!

  • Who drew Linus?

    He did a good job

  • And how funny it now sounds that Linus got lots of critic choosing monolithic architecture for Linux operating system, instead a Server-Client architecture like what HURD and Minix are :D

    Linux is live and owns the world technology side (not desktops because Microsoft dominant position ruling pre-installs of PC's) and allows technology to evolve even faster when people can download whole operating system from kernel.org to study how it works and even improve it.

    "The Linux is like Unix 2.0"

  • "Hello everybody out there using minix. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." So true =))

  • This video is very cool !! I LOVE IT and really Linux is such a good operating system for computers and phones , Android use Linux Core and also they made MAEMO .

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  • Using Debian GNU/Linux Great distro it's my favorite

  • Thumbs up 4 UBUNTU, the best Linux EvR !!!

  • @1blackcast ubuntu sucks just saying...i love linux but i hate ubuntu

  • @emewify u right mate, using LMDE now and loving it even more. ubuntu sucks against LMDE

  • @1blackcast nice love mint and debian its a great combination... im using fedora 14 currently

  • Such a nice video! Finally some recognization of how big and important Linux really is while being the friendliest software out there!

  • Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

    proud of it.....

  • runs on most hardware, for most users software is free, 1000s of coders, testers, debuggers who work for love not money, runs the internet, and like the human race comes in all shapes and sizes, and yet people insist on paying for a piece of software that is full of security holes, has been coded, tested and debugged under duress, and like the hand that owns it comes with the insistence that you bend over and take it up the arse while it fleeces you for more cash.

  • @Angelscarpwns Unless Linux makes some major strategy changes, it will remain obscure. Linux right now is more a potential than a reality. In b4 legions of rabid linux fanboys. 

  • im 17 .. i use linux since debian 3.0 when i was 12, simply .. the operating sistem of my life

  • Debian rocks my computer!

  • I think it's funny that the thing binding people to Window is drivers. That's a thin thread to keep a customer on. Happy with linux and happy it's going to be around for a looooong time. :D My income depends on linux.

  • Congratulations!

  • happy birthday :)

  • Happy Birthday :)

  • happy birthday

  • Happy birthday !

    

  • rende bene l'idea! XD

  • Greatings, FREE people!

  • Linux forever and after! ...And before...And today.

  • Every one should learn Linux.

  • Linux for live! Give it a go!

  • Happy Birthday.

  • Isn't depicting Stallman as god a bit much?

  • @combatLaCarie I think, that's sarcasm... Linus doesn't like Richard that much ;)

  • Hell yeah!!!

  • I sold my iPhone and bought an Android phone and I'm totally enjoying it. I've been thinking about trying Linux for years but I keep delaying lol.

  • @meghterb I recommend Ubuntu! It's a very user-friendly and well-designed software, nice to try :)

  • Using Linux for all of my servers and laptops. But still hanging with Windows on my desktop, due to some driver issues and performance.

  • Congratulations to all 0,9% of Linux users;

  • @gm79 lol true.

  • if I could play steam games on linux i would format my pc right now and install a linux. my pc is totally for games, so using a linux doesnt make sense

  • @epicnidhogg You can run steam games on linux using WINE.

  • @Nanofuture87 i know, but games will work well in a windows than in a windows simulated in linux

  • @epicnidhogg Often but not always. Some games have been reported to run better in wine than in native windows, particularly legacy games. Many games you can't even tell the difference.

  • Once I use Linux, I am hooked. Though I still use Windows, I love Linux for its easier maintenance, numerous customization, ability to install to anything you want such as external hard drive etc.

    Congratulations, Linux. Congratulations, Linus.

    XDDDD

  • the future is here....

  • Long live Linux!

  • Linux Forever! Fuck Windows.

  • Linux is the reason I even I have a career.

    Thanks for being selfless you crazy, hackers.

    o_O

  • 40 people are Windows users

  • Linus Thorvall from Finland?

  • @MrMarxleni He is finnish swedish... He speaks sweden as his mother language and finnish as his second, but his nationality is finnish.

  • @Angelscarpwns for most end users it is hard to live with linux because many companies still don't support it. Because it's cheaper to just support windows which has 90% market share on desktop. And I think the european commission and others should really do something about this.

  • Nope, the ATM I use is using windows. How do I know that? More often then not it has a big fat "send" or don't send". And sometimes a blue screen.

  • # rm -rf C:\

  • @F7733D don't forget the sudo lol!

  • @rinkavideos64 he's already running it as root as there is a hash(#) at the beginning if the command :D

  • @Isamu715 oh right, but still unexperienced assholes might stick this into their command line (without hash) and doesn't work, then try sudo and fuck their pcs.

  • YEA I installed Linux on its 20th anniversary (Fedora 15+GNOME3, nothing is better)

  • Its not a "freedom" to share the changes you make, its mandatory! (if you distribute the software)

  • @corgrath it's not mandatory, it all depends on the license that the software is currently under... zlib license for instance doesn't even make you tell people you've used their software... you need to read... idiot.

  • @TheMetaPhaze We are not discussion the zlib license or any other licenses, than the one actually mentioned in the video; the GPL license (1:20). Don't call me an idiot or tell me to learn to read, when you are clearly not following this video at all, but just looking for a way to argue in a youtube video's comments. And yes, your name suits you.

  • @corgrath

    clearly man, clearly... you know everything.

  • @corgrath

    Clearly man, clearly, i don't understand the video, clearly you are god and know everything, clearly.

    You should not spread misleading information. I can see however that your English is very very poor and that you probably don't understand what you are saying anyway... and you obviously don't understand my nick. I don't argue, i debate to let the truth stand forward... I'll call you what ever I want to call you... especially an idiot when it comes to grammar... We are not discussion.

  • @TheMetaPhaze Err, who are you? And why are you bashing and calling me an idiot, due to my "English grammar"? When and where? And why are you writing all this in a YouTube video comments instead of just sending private messages.

    Comments here should be related to the video, not for any insulting, trolling, flame war, or what ever your agenda is.

  • My name is Linus Torvalds, and I'm your God!

  • Linux es una recuca :D. El poder en tus manos!!!!

  • I Love Linux!

  • August 1991! WoW!!!, for me more than 10 years of PRIDE using it! :)

  • YAY!!

    I have been the part of linux's first 20 years << thts cool ;)

  • why is atheist Stallman so often portrayed as a person from mosaic mythology?

  • I liked the video, but a small critique would not to fall into the "LOC-graph trap". Quality not quantity is something that most people accept as a given in this age of unstructured data and the need to "solutionize" people's problems. The easy, high-quality way of doing things has always been the most enticing in open source development, but LOC-graphs threaten to be the next "clicks" (of the web-bust era).

  • Excellent, « Linux is everywhere », c'est clair. :)

  • Superb video and narration was very informative and brief. This is great VIVA LINUX.

  • good!

    

  • cannot play this video on debian stable without the closed-source proprietary flash plugin :-(

  • @wlfwhiterabbit not for long as lightspark is on the way. slowly buy surely.

  • A bit cheesy, feels a bit glorified here and there, but entertaining and telling some things I did not, in fact, know about.

  • Linux is really great to use! And also not to forget, the awesomely cute penguins in this video. :D

  • The voiceover is David Lawrence...

  • I thought this video would suck, but it's actually pretty good. Even my non-technical "artsy" friends would understand it

    .

  • it should have been specified that along with the freedoms the GPL licence compels those who use it to share the code, that's not a freedom, but it is a very important part of the licence.

  • The sound @1:56, it hink it comes from the game "Day of the Tentacle"...

  • @MegaEpictroll  in ur dream

  • we love you linux

  • I remowed windows and installed linux

  • open source is very good

    

  • Это не они Футураму рисовали? :D

  • Linux!Linux!Linux!

  • wow, GREAT video LinuxFoundation!

    You captivated me in the first few seconds and held me right to the end, I had to watch it again.

    Been using Linux for a decade now and I've never heard such a succinct and truthful explanation of what linux is - fantastic job on this one

  • Linux é o melhor ! 38 Pessoas Usam Windows!

  • @MegaEpictroll Better for the desktop.