Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

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• Linux Love.

  The supercomputers and the dominant Android. The ATM and the geek's fourth computer. Every single inch and every single continent. Live on. I loves you Linux! Psssst, call me.

  

  LOLlolollololol

  11 September, 2011 17:45

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• GNOME

  Sadly GNOME in this picture looks better than GNOME in 2011 (version 3). What were they thinking?

  

  statuskwo5

  11 September, 2011 17:50

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @statuskwo5
    +1

    

    linuxforhumanbeing

    12 September, 2011 05:12

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @statuskwo5
    Not to mention everything in the KDE 1.0 screen cap is completely understandable.

    

    ken_jennings@...

    12 September, 2011 07:58

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @statuskwo5 I am so not the person to ask about GNOME 3. I think it's a really bad mis-step. I disagreed with KDE 4's initial design decisions, but at least I could see what they were trying to do. GNOME 3? I really don't get it.

    

    sjvn@...

    13 September, 2011 08:20

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• It's pretty easy to date the linux desktops by simply

  seeing what version of Windows they look like.

  

  baggins_z

  12 September, 2011 07:07

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @baggins_z <br>i would love to see you, an ignorant fool, trying to date openbox or e17 for me.

    

    qjqqyy

    12 September, 2011 07:24

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @baggins_z
    You mean that MS was able to quickly steal the Linux ideas and implement (poorly) those?

    

    kirovs@...

    12 September, 2011 10:05

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  • re: It's pretty easy to date the linux desktops by simply

    @baggins_z
    I know you're trolling, but...
    
    It's pretty easy to customize the Linux desktop. Making it look like windows is a hell of a lot easier than making windows look like Linux.
    
    Since many people use both, that tends to happen. It's not a thumbs up to the windows desktop by any means.

    

    Tsingi

    12 September, 2011 10:20

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @baggins_z OK here we have an OS that is immune to virus's(I know for now), has great speed, and is FREE. Why in the world would anyone go for Windows?? Oh well I dont and wont ever.

    

    CentristBill

    12 September, 2011 13:30

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @baggins_z Granted for some. The initial interfaces did look a lot like windows. Presently, Gnome 3 / Unity don't look a thing like and thank God, neither did Gnome 2. Seams more and more like Mac/Win are taking from Linux instead of the other way around.

    

    armc

    25 September, 2011 07:52

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• RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

  Before Corel Linux there was a Caldera Linux which I used for some years. It was really nice. Corel didn't work from the word go. It was useless at picking up hardware and other things. I soon uninstalled it. Just before the Corel Linux release Corel's share price went up amazingly. However, it soon went south again.

  

  itadmin@...

  12 September, 2011 16:52

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  • RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

    @itadmin@... There were several Linux desktops before Corel. But, Corel was the first one to try to reach the mass market. Heck, I thought Slackware 1.0 was a fine Linux desktop. And, it was... in its day.

    

    sjvn@...

    13 September, 2011 08:21

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    • The View from the Datacin

      Slackhead zombies do not take kindly to Ubuntustanis dissing the distro.
      Additionally and also.....
      Gnome? What is this thing you speak of? Where might I find this "Gnome"? Perhaps in the "Pasture" or "Xap" subdirectories?
      That which is not of the distro, is not worthy of threading the kernel and hence, should not be spoken of. So saith ArchByte Volkerding

      

      rlawhorn

      20 April, 2012 09:20

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• RE: Gallery: The 20 most significant events in Linux's 20-year history

  This is nice collection of milestones with which I mostly agree, however, second on the list should be the switch of the kernel from its original non-commercial, hobbyist license to being released under the terms of GNU's General Public License. Had this change not occurred (in February of 1992), each of the ensuing achievements would have been improbable at best.
  
  I would also submit that the switchover to the GIT source code manager (also written initially by Mr Torvalds) was (and continues to be) of significant impact and deserving of mention on your Linux timeline.

  

  saul goode

  13 September, 2011 05:06

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