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It looks like only yesterday that people throughout the Linux blogosphere were celebrating Linux's 20th birthday, the good news is the actual, couple of years later. The most popular main system has reached the ripe old age of 22, and its particular creator -- Linus Torvalds -- marked the occasion in characteristically understated fashion.Specifically, echoing his original message from August 26, 1991, inviting feature requests for his then-nascent OS, Torvalds published a likewise worded note late a few weeks ago announcing the arrival with the Linux 3.11-rc7 kernel release.
"I'm doing a (free) main system (simply a hobby, even when it's big and professional) for 486+ AT clones and about everything else around on a sunny day," Torvalds wrote on Google+. "This has been brewing since april 1991, and is also still not ready. I want any feedback on things people like/dislike in Linux 3.11-rc7." Greater than 1,500 plus-ones and nearly 900 reshares later, there without doubt Torvalds got the saying out about Linux's latest milestone. Down in the Linux blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge, drinks were for the house to celebrate the occasion.
'The Sky Isn't Limit'
"Twenty-two years? Where has the time gone?" began Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone, as an example.
"Looking back over precisely what Linux has accomplished in this time, it becomes much easier to quantify what Linux hasn't achieved than they have," Stone added. "Linux has yet to get over the desktop PC. Yea, that's just about it.
"Everywhere else Linux goes it's anyway an important player," he pointed out. "It's pretty amazing this little project of Linus's (you already know, nothing big and professional) originates up to now and it does this much." These are desktops, "we users were misguided by computer vendors to consentrate another OS was the one or better option," Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. suggested. "But this has also being changing, slowly."
In any case, "where does it use the long run? You never know? Heaven is the limit!" Stone concluded. "Well, I reckon that Linux already is used around the International Space Station, so I guess the sky is not the limit. With personal computers fading in relevance, expect the last barriers to Linux to drop allowing it to turn into a truly dominant force."
'The Right Way to accomplish IT'
Indeed, "*/Linux has come a long means by 22 years, from the challenging project for some restless programmers to becoming the backbone of the Internet and the OS of choice for vast sums of shoppers plus an awful lot of OEMs," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "Linux has stopped being in which you project of some but a basis than it for a lot of millions. "Thousands of contributors and countless organizations big and small have shared within the responsibility of providing an excellent os kernel full of drivers for merely everything," Pogson told Linux Girl. "It appears as if what started as smaller than average fragile is huge and robust. It's too important and valuable for anyone to neglect."
To put it briefly, "the Linux play moved through several big acts but there doesn't are most often any conclusion on the horizon," he concluded. "It's just the right technique of doing IT by cooperating as opposed to fighting."
'No End in Sight'
Robin Lim, an attorney and blogger on Mobile Raptor, took an identical view.
"Linux is stronger than ever on its 22nd year, without having lead to sight to the phenomenal growth," Lim observed.
Obviously, "Android is how the game is today, he added. "With Android you have the likes of Samsung making money hugely for the Linux gravy train. "Where next? Well, no doubt don't you think? Android takes over the desktop," Lim suggested. "You convey more people than ever before whose first computer is definitely an Android or iOS phone or tablet. Sooner or later someone will determine forking Android to work on better on a hybrid, laptop or desktop could become a really profitable business."
Indeed, "I hope everyone likewise acknowledges and celebrates the day Android premiered, because without Google determining to make use of the Linux kernel of their new OS, Linux would've stayed from the dank basement of the server room," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet opined. "Torvalds could possibly have caused it to be but Brin and Page managed to get great."
'Global Domination'
Linux "has been helpful to me," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack offered. "It provided a good hobby during my late teens then an excellent decade-long career. Hopefully it proceeds its path of success."
Twenty-two will not be a really notable number, but it is significant in cases like this "because were in the center of a serious transformation in computing," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien opined. "Microsoft looks increasingly being a rudderless company, and at the same time a platform shift to cellular devices is over-shadowing the traditional desktop. "Linux is at the guts with the new mobile platform," O'Brien concluded, "and it is running the information centers that provide the Internet. Were witnessing global domination."
'Many What to Celebrate'
The milestone is "a wonderful feat," Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol agreed.
"We have numerous what to celebrate," Ebersol added, "but sadly, Linux didn't change the uses and abuses of the IT industry. Even now, Microsoft, which battled it a lot, is earning millions, piggybacking Linux and abusing its patent portfolio."
So, "yes, Linux changed the scene for users, however it would not customize the greedy corporate mindset of the IT companies," he asserted. "Pity. They can find a great deal, and have become better, as whole."
'Like a Friend Who's Always There'
No matter the reason, "my personal prediction is the fact that Linux-based os in a single form or some other can be 'Humanity's Main system,'" Google+ blogger Brett Legree suggested. "It seems well en route to being exactly that, running anything from embedded systems, watches, smartphones, routers, laptops, workstations, supercomputers... we all know it is everywhere."
So, "while I can point out that I didn't jump along when Linux hit the important 22, perhaps that's simply because it has complied well that it is given, being a friend who is always there for you and will never let you down," he concluded. "Happy Birthday, Linux."
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