 How old exactly is the GNU slash Linux operating system? Because last week, Linux had a birthday. The Linux kernel celebrated its 30th birthday and a lot of new to Linux users, especially those that watch my channel, many of you guys are thinking about coming over to Linux from Windows and you hear stories about Linux celebrates its 30th birthday and you think the GNU slash Linux operating system is actually turning 30. No, no, no. Because again, GNU slash Linux is actually the full name of our operating system and GNU, the GNU part of that, has actually been under development for about 38 years. Now GNU, the project, was announced in September of 1983. So 38 years ago this month actually. So it's celebrating a birthday. Maybe we should celebrate the birth of GNU instead of the birth of the Linux kernel. But nobody ever celebrates the birth of GNU. I don't know why because that actually is the real start of the operating system because those guys were actually building GNU. GNU's not UNIX, right? As a UNIX operating system, a UNIX-like operating system. Way back then, they just never got a kernel completed. They were working on a kernel, the Herd kernel. It just never got completed. And then Linus Torvalds in 1991 created his kernel called Linux. And then the GNU guys worked really hard to make their GNU operating system work with the Linux kernel. So it was a collaborative effort. Too many people give Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel too much credit for the operating system because there were so many people that are responsible for the birth of the GNU slash Linux operating system. And then, you know, it's not like either Stallman and the GNU people or Torvalds and the kernel team made a GNU slash Linux operating system. I mean, if you're talking about distributions, the first distributions didn't appear until two years after the start of Linux. I mean, in 1993, that was the birth of Slackware and Debian late 1993. I think September and October of that year, respectively. So really, how old is the GNU slash Linux operating system? If we're talking about releases, you know, it's only about 28 years old. It's not 30 years old. But if you're talking about as far as conceptually how old it is, it's 38 years old. So I just wanted to put this short video out there because a lot of people seem to think that that 30th anniversary of the kernel is actually the date for GNU slash Linux as an operating system. And honestly, depending on how you think about it, our operating system is either 38 years old or 28 years old. Not 30 years old. Anyway, peace, guys.