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one finnish student's hobby project now runs most of the internet and doesn't charge rent.
means the core program that talks to your hardware and lets every other piece of software boss it around.
from started in 1991 when linus torvalds, a helsinki university student, posted to a newsgroup that he was writing a free operating system kernel just for fun, nothing big like gnu, and expected it to stay a hobby.
first announcementlinus called it just a hobby, wont be big
size todayover 30 million lines of code
contributorsthousands of developers, from volunteers to google
release cyclenew version roughly every 9 to 10 weeks
for instance
android — powers over 3 billion active devices worldwide
top500 supercomputers — runs on essentially all of them since 2017
iss laptops — nasa switched space station systems to it in 2013
steam deck — valve's handheld runs a custom linux build, 2022