Linux is Everywhere

[MDxm3000]

It's changing name to Pornternet.

[enterprise0709]

Fact: linux users use linux to watch virus free porn on the internet.

Good to know...

[YomorokaXD]

the next best thing scene mac :D

[lorddamian]

@YomorokaXD you have got to be kidding D:

[BigBananaMan]

The FOSS movement was actually started by Richard Stallman in 1983. He was making the GNU operating system to be compatible with Unix while remaining free. Linus Torvalds was interested in it but the GNU Hurd kernel was not complete at the time so he joined in and wrote the Linux kernel in 1991, completing the GNU/Linux operating system.

Fun fact: the Mach kernel which the original abandoned Hurd kernel was based off of, is also what Macintosh OS X is based off of.

[Corbenik]

100 thumbs up for erukjent2

[Blinx100]

i Have a question about linux after watching this video? is linux really one company and organization. or is it just a classification for the bits and pieces and entireties added to OS, games, and ect. that doesn't truly belong to anyone company or organization.

[link470]

Linux was an open source operating system developed by Linus Torvalds. Unix was an old style operating system still used today and what many people base their operating systems around [even Mac OS X is Unix based]. Linus didn't like the cost of these systems and thought there must be a better way, so he developed Linux, short for Linus's Unix. He made it open source, meaning anyone could take the code and modify it, and because of this, there are hundreds of Linux versions available today.

[Blinx100]

Thanks, i just wanted to know what linux truly would.

[Blinx100]

Sorry, i meant "was".

[DenisQC]

Why do you say « Linux was », Linux IS.

Linus Torvalds did not himself deciced to name it Linux, the name is a tribute.

[Danquebec01]

Linux belongs to no one, it is just under GNU GPL license, it is free and will always be free. This is a commercial from IBM, because IBM want peoples to use Linux (it would help them I imagine, dont ask me how).

[AngeredKabar]

If I recall correctly, Linus Torvalds does maintain a copyright on the name 'Linux" He is also the head of the Linux kernel project, so for the most part he shapes what Linux is and will become. One can use the Linux kernel for whatever purpose, and rewrite it at will, assuming they adhere to the GPL, and at that time it becomes their project, however Linus (or one of the other project leaders) could decide to incorporate those changes in the next release of the kernel.

[VinuVonVin]

@AngeredKabar That's true, although under the GPL they don't actually have to provide details of their modifications to anyone unless they've provided the modified version - ie if a company makes a change and it's used entirely in-house, they don't have to pass their patches upstream. Not that this happens in practice with things that are significant.

[AmberwiseTheWise]

Blinx, no one owns Linux. There are hundreds of thousands of people, some working under companies like Novell and IBM and Canoical, that develop, improve and support Linux. In short, your second point was right.

[AngeredKabar]

Linux it's self is an operating system kernel developed mainly by freelance programmers and computer hobbyists. The entire project was started and is maintained by Linus Torvalds. The software licensing in both the Linux kernel and much of the programs you would find installed on a GNU/Linux system is very unrestrictive and it allows you to do pretty much everything you want to. You could make a proprietary system run by Linux, or a full GPL compatible distribution.

[Ageofzetta]

@AngeredKabar GNU/Linux OS project was started by Stallman :P

[Freespire44]

yo Linux Rocks I tried running Windows Vista on my I.B.M Net Vista and it did not work very well However with it Runs smoothly With Linux Mint.

[bruma1984]

East

West

North

South

No one knew he was there (he allways been there)

No one recognised his power! (Simply the most strong OS and stable!)

He spoke every language (Millions of Thousands of users of every nationality)

Probably the bigger community of SO/Open source and Rising!

[coreboy]

Youtube runs on linux servers

[ares213]

Pretty much the entire internet runs on linux.

[cwest666]

And is financed by porn.

[sniper89pl]

True.

[romanoskar]

And the conclusion is...

[sniper89pl]

The whole Internet runs on porn xD

[045355]

Ok that exchange was damn funny but I don't see quite how you figure that Linux is financed by porn in the first place.

[sniper89pl]

We've said that Internet is, not Linux ;)

[Bl4ckDmon1]

But Linux operates the interwebs, And provides porn!

Good things come from Linux!

[erukjent2]

and whit linux you can surf so much porn as you like and no viruses XD

[davestown]

Open Source is what Nintendo was for the 80s

[bobdole85]

yeh?

[agente2012]

Linux is cool