A picture of bowls of eggs, flour, sugar, water, butter an sugar wit the text:
Happy 34th Birthday, Linux!
Here’s your cake, go ahead and compile it yourself.
Edit: fixed the text in the image to “34th”
I compiled it as a flatpak for those who want :3.. it's unofficial tho
A real flatpak cake would come wrapped in the oven used to bake it.
That's pure genius
Mine came ready to eat.
yum install -y mint-choc # 😋
Man, Linux is one of those things where it's less old than I think.
I don't see myself as an early adopter at all, but I remember trying to get some version of Debian running on the same Pentium PC I had gotten to play stuff like Duke 3D, and I don't remember at the time thinking "oh, this is some new thing", so I had assumed the concept existed for decades, rather than being just a handful of years old.
Right? I started futzing with different distros (all two/three of them, lol) in the mid to late 90s. Had zero clue how new all of this stuff actually was at the time. It felt like a super power to run something other than DOS/Win9{5,8}/NT4. No stupid software keys. Could easily run network services, etc.
The thing is in my memory it wasn't that special because at the time computers came in a lot more flavors than now. There were a ton of semi-recent computers that used just some variant of Basic, others some variant of DOS, DOS and Windows were different things and both in use, Apple-IIs were a thing, but also Macs...
I remember the first time I gave it a shot it was a bit of a teenage nerd challenge, because the documentation was so bad and you had to do the raw Arch thing with Debian and set up things step by step to get to a semblance of an X server, let alone a DE. And then after spending a couple nights messing with that I didn't think about it much until a few years later when Ubuntu sort of figured out making things easy.
By the mid 2000s I remember people my age laughing at older normies for not having heard of Linux already, so it all moved relatively fast. It was maybe less than a decade between it coming into being and then it being something you probably don't use but you've heard of, which is faster than I would have said if you asked me.
It got so big so fast. You're absolutely right. The movie Antitrust (basically a david/goliath allegory between FOSS and Microsoft) came out in 2001! Linux and FOSS had become mainstream enough to end up in a hollywood movie where even the onscreen time of the computers showed legit shells and stuff. Now Linux literally runs on billions of devices, and powers the backend of a majority of companies. Even Microsoft did a 180(-ish) and maintain their own distro for their cloud shit, made .net cross platform to run on Linux, etc.
flatpak install flathub org.cake.chocolate
The cake is a lie!!!!
10 days ago?
It took 10 days to compile the post.
And find it's way into the repositories
I’ve had it at the 27th for a few years in my calendar now, but I have no idea why, lol.
Apparently the official birthday should be August 25th, so maybe I mixed those up?
I just found out GNU is 42 today! Maybe that explains it.
I'll throw some optional ingredients: Mint and cinnamon.
I never ever had to compile Linux, not even once. Always installed from the distributions website and was done.
Doing a stage 1 gentoo, or LFS can be tedious but fun. When CPUs were a lot slower, getting the whole distro compiled under all of compiler optimizations that you could muster would actually make a difference in terms of performance.
This is what I was told by some turkeys on the internet back in the day, so I dutifully attempted a from-scratch Gentoo compilation on my ancient old 1ghz Celeron laptop. I don't think it ever finished. Insofar as I'm aware it's still compiling to this very day.
Later on I considered if the architecture of my commodity P3 based Celeron machine was materially any different from the oodles of others in the world, and I concluded that it wasn't. The hell with it.
sudo emerge based-cooking/cake
Hint: :q!
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