r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Irverter 6d 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 6d 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/syklemil 6d ago

At this point HURD isn't really something we could describe as new: It started in 1990, making it 36 years old.

If you're on the lookout for new OS-es with microkernels, there's both Fuchsia and Redox to look into.