# Linux is 20

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769 "2011-10-06T08:20:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769/1 "2011-10-06T08:20:12Z")

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[As of yesterday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel). A 21 year old Linus Torvalds released version 0.0.2 of the Linux kernel, the first public release of the kernel, on the Minix Usenet group.

It’s pretty amazing that a 21 year old could have written a piece of software that came to dominate the computing industry so thoroughly, from [supercomputers](http://top500.org/stats/list/37/osfam) (92% market share of the top 500 supercomputers) to [mobile phones](http://www.android.com/) and virtually everything inbetween.

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**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769/2 "2011-10-06T13:27:18Z")

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How old is Luxy?

I got to play with linux for awhile on my PS3. It was a fun learn.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769/3 "2011-10-06T13:48:56Z")

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I feel old.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769/4 "2011-10-06T20:44:06Z")

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> [@enomaj](#):
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> How old is Luxy?

What in the world is Luxy?

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linux-is-20/598769/5 "2011-10-07T15:38:41Z")

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I got in early with a Yggdrasil distro, then Slackware, then Redhat, then Ubuntu-family. But nowadays I do Cygwin mostly.

So early, in fact, that I read the Linux Pronunciation FAQ that came with the distros back then and I still pronounce it right. (And get “corrected” by the newbs who came along later. Yeah, right.)

See [here](http://groups.google.com/group/news.answers/msg/fc31f6cacf54e6dc?hl=en&).