Why so many distros? The Weird History of Linux

00:00 In the Beginning
01:10 GNU + Linux
02:44 What is a Distro?
03:29 Slackware
03:48 Debian
05:30 Redhat
06:17 Arch
06:59 Independent Distros
07:58 Bonus Mindblower

#linux #dev #history

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[FranLMSP]

And remember kids: "Free" is about "freedom", not price

[timberwoof]

"Distro" means "Distribution."
It's so obvious to Linux users that defining the term seems unnecessary. But to an outsider, that simple definition helps a lot of understanding.

[vikashtripathi]

When it came to version control controversy Linus said "Fine I'll do it myself"

[alemalohe]

8:11 " He created git!" - Lol why not right

[KristherLouisVidal]

Linus created this as a hobby. While I can't even remember basic email pattern for regular expressions

[daffaharyadi]

Weaponized assault Penguin is an accurate representation of linux community

[lawrencedoliveiro]

8:12 He was actually forced to create Git. What happened was that BitKeeper was made available as freeware to the Linux developer community, hedged around with a great deal of caveats. One of these was “no reverse engineering”. Torvalds felt for some reason he could agree to these terms on behalf of the entire Open Source community. So when Andrew Tridgell was commissioned (by the FSF, I think) to reverse-engineer BitKeeper’s formats and protocols, Torvalds ordered him to stop. To which he responded in the predictable way. So Larry McVoy gave notice of the termination of the BitKeeper licence. Torvalds went off to ruminate on things for a couple of weeks, and came back with the beginnings of Git.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

[andresramos]

This moment when you realize, that this legend create a second project worth millions, only for manage his first big project worth millions

[gradientO]

Next video idea: filesystems exFAT, EXT4, FAT32, NTFS, etc

[GiDaOne]

Gotta love the subtitles sometimes. "led to a period known as the eunuchs wars"

[queenannsrevenge]

I love what Linus said about creating git; he used concurrent versions system (CVS) as an example what NOT to do, and when in doubt on a decision point, made the exact opposite decision from CVS. 😀

[karaway]

"won't be a big professional thing"
lol no

[drakegabrielvereto]

Watching it from a GNU/Linux based OS, a big respect goes to you, bro

[JOJOSHgaming]

Dennis Richie,
Ken Thompson,
Richard Stallman,
Linus Torvalds

Legends that created the heart(engine) of computer programming.

[elliott]

Correction 0:49 - "Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were creating the Unix operating system".

Ken Thompson wrote the (original) operating system solo in 3 weeks ... in assembly. He thought he was going to be be fired for doing so, because Bell Labs was told not to work on operating systems anymore. A couple years later Dennis Ritchie invented C (built on top of Ken's own language, B), Ken then tried rewriting Unix in C a couple of times, providing feedback about the language to Dennis - He didn't like using the language until Dennis added structures.

Because C and Unix were both invented at Bell Labs, and were (after a few years) closely entwined, lots of people seem to confuse who invented what, and sadly often leave out how significant Ken's contribution was.

[bilalmaleq]

The community of Linux is so diverse that almost any discussion can turn controversial. The way you covered this topic is no less of an artistic genius!









I use arch btw

[benruss]

SteamOS is actually Arch these days. A couple years back Valve split to Arch, and that was *before* this video was made.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

5:38 That “security” aspect was a bit of a joke in the early days, when Red Hat installers tended to load on everything by default. A client of mine got hacked through a vulnerability in the SunRPC service, which we weren’t even using.

[sayanghosh]

2:18 this would be the biggest blunder in this video according to me. Linux is released under GPL2 and not 3. When GPL3 was released torvalds clearly rejected upgrading to GPL3 because he doesn't agree with the license.

[vuelancer]

Seriously, you did a hard work on making this video!