What are you switching to now that #Debian and even #Linux is getting slopified? I'm looking at #NetBSD, but I've got zero experience with #BSD so pls help

Packman to be discontinued? From the mailing: After 25 years, the time has come for us to hand over the Packman project. If no one is found who wishes to continue Packman, we will discontinue the project on 31/12/2026.

https://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2026-August/018314.html

#linux

FIND yourself a a linux distribution or BSD that does reject AI; use it and donate to it.

If you can't move your daily driver move a secondary machine. Tinker with it, fit it into your life where it makes sense.

YEAH the linux kernel has slop. Most programming languages have slop. Most desktop environments have slop, you will have dependencies that are still slop. This is a big problem; there is no magic off switch to fixing this overnight.

We are in the early days of dealing with a contaminate that polluters are actively dumping into our digital environment.

It is going to take a long time before anyone can truly be slop free.

But support, and invest in the folks doing that hard work which will build a slop free future.

Starlight Network maintains a list of slop rejecting operating systems and distros here: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #floss #AntiAI #linux #bsd #netbsd #elementaryos #gentoo

When I see someone say that moving away from an OS that has questionable choices would require "living a hairshirt existence" I laugh out loud. The first 1/3 of my "Linux lifetime" was just that.

I was there when Linux was new. The chances of a UNIX app not being provided by your distribution was quite high. You had to manually calculate monitor and video card clock timings to get a GUI. You probably had to dual boot if you wanted to do anything like gaming.

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Early adopters and contributors refused to accept this situation and stuck with it. It went from hairshirt to mainstream in part due to people sticking to their principles. And, above that, the principles of open source.

So yes, switching is hard. It will be difficult for a time, but enough people standing by their principles can lead to critical mass. It's unbelievable that the very people whose careers are built on open source are forgetting how it works.

1. This list is NOT exhaustive. There was also a binary format change, non-modular kernel and more.

#linux #noai #netbsd

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:

Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.

AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

#aislop #debian #gnulinux #linux #distribution

1. Debian Developer resigns from the project in response to the recent vote to allow generative AI use within Debian.
2. A member of the debian-devel mailing list sends the message at left in response.
3. I just sent the message at right in response to that.
#Debian #Linux #AI

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good riddance, antoine the fascist. you love causing damage to the debian project and now you're throwing a temper tantrum like a five-year old child because you can't comprehend the ai evolution. you are nothing more than a deranged person who spits at people's work and expects people to follow their unhinged beliefs, a waste of human space. you are the one who is being fascist here.

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Either the Debian Community Team officially, on the debian-devel mailing list, states that the message below from David Nickelson violates the Code of Conduct and imposes consequences on him for sending it, or I am resigning as maintainer of apt-listchanges and never again taking on any volunteer role within Debian. My contributions to Debian thus far have been extremely small, and I'm sure they will not be terribly missed. Nevertheless, I will not continue to associate myself with an organization which allows messages like the one below to be sent without repercussions.

#Debian was structured as a democracy of developers (maybe technically a platonic aristocracy, but it does not matter here).

Thanks to this, it got trust that turned it into a fundamental building block for #Linux users (most used distro are Debian derivatives).

Unfortunately, such trust also attracted commercial interest.

Now most of Debian Developers (just like most of #Linux kernel's devs) are corporate employees that would not be assigned to Debian development if they would oppose corporare interests.

So ultimately Debian cannot be trusted anymore: the vote on #LLM is just an evidence of this fact.

To people who use it since decades (I started with Potato because of its focus on #freedom), it's a pain.

Right now I'm slowly moving to #NetBSD.

@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @freshstart@hachyderm.io @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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https://github.com/hieunc229/mailflare

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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@linuxuserspace
For the kernel:
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD ☑️
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️
❗LLMs used
❔Unknown or unclear position about LLMs but I didn't found any LLM generated commits
☑️ LLM use forbidden or limited for the code
✅ LLM use forbidden

@cffiegel @hermod @phaeton @pOtiron @bastamedia
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD ☑️
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️

❗LLMs utilisés
❔Position inconnue ou peu claire mais pas de commits par LLM (en tout cas à ma connaissance)
☑️ Usage de LLMs interdit ou limité pour le code
✅ Usage de LLMs interdit

Certaines distributions linux comme Gentoo ont également interdit les contributions par IA. Malheureusement, il me semble qu'aucun système grand public n'a banni les LLMs.

New bugfix release of Exosphere, my simple, agentless CLI and TUI driven patch reporting application for remote UNIX-like systems.

Documentation refresh and cleanup, and fixes a few edge case issues, especially on Python 3.14.

With the non stop flurry of kernel and CVE updates across all supported platforms, it has sure been dogfooded extensively, and I continue to hope the tool can be of use to people.

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v3.0.1

#exosphere #linux #freebsd #openbsd #homelab #SRE

So, what is the linux distro to look into, succeeding to debian? I use debian for so long i would prefer not to relearn a new type of wheel..

I want foss, and by the way, how do i know if any of the pending software has ai hiding in it?

Now that the limits and the citadel walls are crumbling.

#debian #linux #ai

@annantidote Take a hard look at #FreeBSD. No, it's *not* #Linux and that's a good thing.

Boop : une alternative self-hosted gratuite et opensource à Sentry qui tourne avec 8 Mo de RAM. Vos apps envoient l'erreur, le serveur la pousse direct sur votre iPhone via une app iOS open source.
Pas de Slack, pas de Telegram, pas d'abonnement.
Gratuit et open source. ⬇️
https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Interface de Boop, une application d'inbox de notifications self-hosted pour développeurs, affichant une liste de notifications organisées par projets (Personal DB, Uni, FPLXI) avec différents statuts (Success, Info, Error) et timestamps. L'application permet de gérer et filtrer les notifications provenant de diverses applications et services.

OOOOHHH I get it now.
In m4, by default, you quote stuff like this:
`QUOTED'.
That's a grave accent and an apostrophe.
I thought that was really weird....

Later I was looking at the original m4 manual from 1977 and I found out WHY they chose those symbols.

The apostrophe was stylized as an acute accent before ASCII was later updated. So it looked right back then.

I include a picture from the 1977 ASCII standard (same year lol) where you can see it was indeed meant to look like ´ instead of ' . But at some point it changed.
#linux #unix

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page -2- of https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5891909/page/n1/mode/1up

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page 8 of https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-1977.pdf

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/

#LWN #Linux #Debian

New blogpost:

# Migrating my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server

It worked better than I was expecting, but that’s mainly because my expectations were very low.

Sufficient things are broken (for me, anyway) for it to be a pain.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/migrating-my-self-hosted-unifi-controller-from-network-manager-to-unifi-os-server/

#unifi #Linux #selfhosting

I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.

This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.

The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:

- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects

Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.

Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.

It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.

This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.

I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.

Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!

NEVER SLOP

#ai #antiai #antislop #linux #cat #kitto #comic #art #mastoart #fediart #tutorial

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NEVER SLOP KITTO #neverslop

so, we have a winner, it seems: Proposal E

I actually am rather surprised while at the same time being not surprised: this is the option that says "keep the status quo but call whatever you do 'responsible'". A very #Debian thing, indeed.

It even mentions that slop is probably breaking copyright (while at the same time carefully wording to not even actually state that).

(edited to add: if you look at the Graphviz result, you’ll see that, after this option, the pro-slop ones have landed over the pro-life ones; this (it’s preferential voting) makes me sad)

So, what does that mean?

No rage-quitting, at least. (This is very much in the interest of the users.) But also no improvement. But also no official sanctioning of slop.

I cannot believe I am saying this, but I’m actually rooting for… Helene Fischer, the GEMA, and the german Medienanstalten… to save us, by getting courts to recognise these issues.

I cannot believe I am writing the above. This timeline is bizarre.

The bubble is also already bursting, but not fast enough, which is raising the collateral damage each minute it has not yet burst. (Here I mean financial, trust, etc. but for #FOSS specifically, it also means that LLM-extruded digital asbestos gets added to more and more codebasēs in growing quantities, which will be hard to recover from.)

What I would like to know is why such an important topic has, what, under 40% voting participation. smh

(the preliminary automated report by the voting tool does not give the numbers; the project secretary will do so within days, so this is a guesstimate)

Practically, what can we do?

Pretty much only this:

Ride out trixie without rsyslog (and without backports) until the end of its #ELTS, grudgingly installing kernel security updates. Avoid LPNs (npm, composer, pip, cargo, go get, etc.) at all cost (this is not new but now more important than ever). Use third-party repos only after manually checking for slop policies for both the repo and the softwares contained within (I had to split my own repo, I added a non-free component for ensloppified tomcat9 but kept the last one from before in the component with the main policy).

Check out unensloppified OSes as alternatives in parallel (seems to have only NetBSD as contender, among OSes capable of running similar enough use cases). Prepare to switch to unensloppified OS at any time, around 2035 at the latest. Do not hope that by then all the slop will be reverted from core system components (if it is, I will be pleasantly surprised, but right now, #Linux is dying).

Reduce computers and compute in your life.

And, if you can, fight this on useful levels. Not copyright licences, they ignore these and consent anyway. But: On a political level, up to and including guillotines, if you must. On an educational level, with friends, family, and even pupils/students. The younger generations are not lost. Make a worthwhile future, including human art, craft, crocheting, knitting, music, painting, woodworking, what have you. Doesn’t matter if it’s not good: it’s yours. Read books (from before 2020 or so). Go out, make train trips, cycle, garden, including fruit and vegetables. Care for your cats and other loved ones. And say no to fashtech.

Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091203/

#LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

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https://github.com/vercel-labs/vgpu

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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I am disappointed.

My list of boycotts keeps growing.
Fascism, consumption, waste.
We should be living with the conservation and sustainability of all things at the base of our decisions.

Our habitat, environment, air, water, food, forests, all life, and our energy! Electricity is a precious commodity that should not befall capitalist consumerism.

I boycott #GAFAM, Airbnb, MacDo, Nestlé, and LLMs,...

Now the #Linux kernel has decided to use LLMs. Slop aside it is not an ethical choice for its consumption and ties to fascism.
Debian too.

The Nazis in #FOSS, DHH, Omarchy, Hyprland, and #NeoVim. Framework computer!

Fascism is alive and well in FOSS.

I suspect that this week's #neovim kerfuffle was just a wee appetizer.

A small, bold dish of discourse to whet the appetite if you will.

The main course promises to be a spicy mélange of brouhaha, balderdash, and ballyhoo featuring the results of today's #Debian vote on #AI usage in the project.

Bon Appétit!

#Linux #FOSS

X Chat Agents : des comptes bots programmatiques créés depuis votre projet, avec user id, @handle et nom d'affichage, mais ni mot de passe ni login.
Le bearer token est le seul moyen d'agir, et chaque bot affiche un label "Automated by @owner".

Je sais pas quoi en penser 🤨 ⬇️
https://docs.x.com/xchat/bots

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗼 𝗫𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 [UPDATE 1 - Lenovo XClarity One] to the article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm#UPDATE1

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #linux @lenovo #one

iptables imply the existence of ipchairs and other ipfurnitures.

You can get them at ipkea.

#Networking #Linux #Security

I run gkrellm everywhere. Even on closed Source operating systems. The dashboard is designed in such a way that I can just glance and know if something is wrong, if some process pulls way too much, and then I get in with htop to granularly see what's going on

@rl_dane

#gkrellm #Linux #BSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #win64 #dashboard

My Friend Lunic: #omarchy

...

My Friend @khm helped me draw this picture. It would not exist without him.

#linux #art #comic #fediart #mastoart #arch @nixCraft #unix_surrealism

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it's been 3 days already, but my friend Lunic is still talking about some weird distro from a dude who made an email service that doesn't work with email clients. I think he went stupid. Lunic: omarchi omarchi omarchi omarchi

Linus Torvalds banishes Linux bug with a bot – Liam Proven | The Register

<https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/24/linus-torvalds-banishes-linux-bug-with-a-bot/5291784> @lproven

"… There are several points of interest here. One is that the fix is from Linus himself. Another is the unusually discursive comment. The third and perhaps the most important is that he used a bot to find the bug. He also used it to write the bug report, …

It’s a good example of how coding bots are a legitimately useful tool for developers. It looks like he didn’t use the bot to write the fix – that wasn’t needed, it’s a one-line fix – but the bot wrote 42 chunks of test code that enabled Linus to find the bug. …"

I wondered about his choice of AI, Claude could not tell us: <https://claude.ai/share/d161d4d5-b56f-4bfa-be2f-c95a741d10a5>.

#AI #Linux #Torvalds

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#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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https://fx.sh/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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New 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗼 𝗫𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 [Lenovo XClarity Administrator in FreeBSD Bhyve VM] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm/

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #linux @lenovo

@nixCraft
@SomeGadgetGuy mentioned it's not usage per se; data analysts usually see Cloudflare or other data like ping requests and web traffic.

It is AI bots. That's why we also see OSX and macOS discrepancies.

Without Linux telemetry, it is very hard to measure it. I am of the belief that #Linux already has a significant market share but no data to validate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbki6ofBEWY

I have an old #Surface tablet that I cannot update to Win11 because the #!@%$§ installer always errors. Since my other computers are on #Linux, thinking about installing it here too...

Would @alpinelinux be a good choice here? Does it work with the surface kernel? Or should I go with @fedora - same as on my surface pro?

#Alpine #AlpineLinux #Fedora

#Debian LTS contributors released 52 DLAs fixing 2159 CVEs in July. Notable security updates were released for the #linux kernel, grub2, imagemagick, jq, nginx, nss, poppler, samba and more.

Debian LTS team took full responsibility of Debian 12 (#bookworm) in July after its last point release.

Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for the stable release, Debian 13 (#trixie).

Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-07/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #jq #poppler

Meet the Board! We'll be holding an AUA on Reddit with GNOME's new Board members this Saturday.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1vz7pja/meet_the_board/

#opensource #gnome #linux

TermDOM des interfaces de terminal codées en HTML, CSS et DOM ⬇️
https://termdom.org/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Cyber : un langage de scripting rapide avec types statiques optionnels, concurrence via fibers et FFI C. Devance LuaJIT sur certains benchmarks, s'embarque dans des applications via libcyber. ⬇️
https://cyberscript.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Le mot "CYBER" est écrit en grandes lettres orange majuscules sur un fond noir, représentant le logo ou titre de Cyber, un langage de script rapide et concurrent.

For Omarchy Quattro #Linux there's tool to search through commands and execute them viamenu as an alternative to memorizing so many keyboard shortcuts.

There's a pull request to enable a keybindings IPC on #Sway to support that, along with a script to use Fuzzel for the same kind of search-and-execute app:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/5561#pullrequestreview-5022834088

#SwayWM

Been using #Deskflow with my #Debian #Linux #KDE #Plasma #Wayland box as the "server" and my #NetBSD #ctwm #X11 laptop as the "client" or second screen.

It's amazing that it works, but it's buggy. I'll get a few repeat keystrokes, and sometimes the control key gets stuck.

P.S. Thanks to @etam for this solution: https://im-in.space/@etam/117162772780969631

#DontHateTheHashtagPlayaHateTheHashtagGame

That feeling when you come across an abandoned 35 year old PC in an aircraft hangar and you think to yourself “I could probably get netBSD and some roguelikes running on that thing…”

#retrogaming #netbsd #roguelikes #retrocomputing #linux #foss #pcgaming

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An old IBM PC 300GL QS1 found in the back of an airplane hangar

Buzz : un workspace self-hosted où humains et agents IA partagent les mêmes canaux et le même journal d'événements. Les agents ouvrent des dépôts, soumettent des patches, font des reviews et orchestrent des workflows, pas juste du chat. ⬇️
https://github.com/block/buzz

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran d'une application de communication d'équipe montrant une conversation dans le canal "flight-path" avec des messages détaillant un plan de capture vidéo en trois étapes, incluant des conseils sur les transitions et les mouvements de curseur.

#China joins #Europe in scrapping #Windows for #Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-windows-for-linux/

#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Nathan/117155798588587714

make cake

#Linux #HappyBirthday

Nathan 🇵🇷 » 🌐 2026-08-25
@Nathan@mastodon.bsd.cafe

#linux

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image is of cake ingredients, caption states "happy birthday linux! Here's your cake, go ahead and compile it yourself.

#TIL that ln -s doesn't require a destination. It assumes . if none is given.

rld@prometheus:applications$ ln -s ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop 
rld@prometheus:applications$ ll -rat
total 16,384
-rw-r--r--  2 rld rld   264 Jun  4 17:43 sncli.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 rld rld   215 Jun 14 15:33 tut.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    46 Jun 14 22:43 tootuser.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/tootuser.desktop
drwx------ 15 rld rld 4,096 Aug 22 16:44 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    50 Aug 25 08:00 iamb-flatpak.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop
drwxrwxr-x  2 rld rld 4,096 Aug 25 08:00 .
rld@prometheus:applications$ 

DESCRIPTION
       In  the  1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.  In the 2nd form, create a link to
       TARGET in the current directory.  In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in  DIRECTORY.

🤯

(Confirmed it behaves the same on all three major BSDs, as well)

#Unix #Linux #BSD #StillLearning

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
...
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(."

Eine DER Untertreibungen des Jahrtausends.

Happy Birthday, #Linux!

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Linus Benedict Torvalds Newsgroups: comp.os.minix From: torva...@klaava.HelsinkL FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Local: Sun, Aug 25 1991 4:57 pm Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? 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. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my 05 resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-systen (due to practical reasons) among other things) I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and 1'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'LL implement them :-) Linus (torva...@kruuna. helsinki. fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never Will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all T have :-(

I know @liw's claim to fame is he witnessed these events in person.
I can at least say I read #Linus' post contemporaneously (well, days later — it *was* #Usenet).

I thought: “such a ramble-y post; it's going anywhere! & it can't run on my 286!?!?”

I *was* a 17 year old kid then. 🤣

I also think of that post every time I see #LinuxFoundation act all “big & professional” in their pompous way & #RMS act childishly w/ #GNU like it's his toy. Both happen often.

https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/117154135239819814

#Linux

Lars Wirzenius [he/him, they/them] » 🌐 2026-08-25
@liw@toot.liw.fi

On this day in 1991 some college kid in Finland told people on Usenet he would not be doing a big and professional operating system. It would later be called Linux.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

#Linux #OnThisDay #OTD

On this day in 1991 some college kid in Finland told people on Usenet he would not be doing a big and professional operating system. It would later be called Linux.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

#Linux #OnThisDay #OTD