The Linux Origin Story & King of Open Source

The Godfather of Open Source is undoubtedly Linus Torvalds, eccentric creator of Linux. Let's dive in to learn...

1. why the open source revolution is the bedrock of the entire software world, and why you should care
2. who is Linus Torvalds (and why many people dislike him personally)
3. the legacy an impact of the Linux OS which powers the majority of the internet.

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[accountid]

wow, this is high quality, if you keep this up your channel is gonna explode

[JoeJoeTater]

Nice summary. I think it would have been good to give a little more context about how Bell and UNIX drove the need for FOSS, how organizations like GNU, CC, FSF, EFF, and Mozilla made it "a thing", and how Microsoft made it a necessity.

[Erarnitox]

Oh man Stallman would hate it knowing he is in a video about Open Source and even shown as a supporter of it on a proprietary video platform 😂

[TDG]

I was introduced to open source software in my first semester of university, and I had never left, it is just so awesome!

[annieworroll]

I've been on Linux as my daily driver for 8 or so years, but I've had it installed on secondary systems and/or dual booting all the way back to 1999 with Red Hat 5.2, though I went with Ubuntu when I swtiched from OSX for my daily driver. It's come so far.

[kornelpatyi]

I'm really suprised that you have so few subcribers. You deserve a lot more. Keep up the good work!

[shlokbhakta]

“nobody writes perfect code the first time. except for me, but there is only one of me” -Linus Torvalds talking to a bunch of google developers at a conference he was invited to by google

[GabrielM]

Amazing, thanks for sharing your research with us!

[IgnacioEsteves]

Wow. This was such a nice watch.
I scrolled in search for comments but found this has 35 views atm! I subbed, nice content.

[alejandromedina]

Linux is Open Source but is also Free (as in freedom), not all open source is libre. Good video. Do one on RMS

[evildragon]

This is an amazing documentation, what software you use?

[Clone_osu]

Don't give up man one day you will hit a million sub's I guarantee you that

[lawrencedoliveiro]

4:03 “Kernel” and “operating system” are pretty much synonymous. For reference, go see OS guru Andrew Tanenbaum’s textbook on the subject -- the MINIX book itself.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

2:02 That looks like a KDE 4.x desktop with the old “Keramik” theme. And of course Emacs.

[jesuschris]

Hey man you may want to fix this: at 2:52 you say “naturally Microsoft was a competitor to Windows” I think you meant to say Linux there 😉

[lawrencedoliveiro]

0:14 Nitpick: that screenshot looks like some kind of game/graphics code, not Linux kernel code.

[JustSomeTommy]

Why in the world don't you promote this channel more? It's great and I was like hey I recognize this voice. I took me sometime to figure it out.

[Btch]

It would be more accurate to say that Linus created GIT as an answer to subversion. Which was a very inefficient way to track versioning. Over time, subversion became bloated with repositories exceeding several GB. In comparison GIT keeps track of changes instead of versions which in the world of open source became extremely useful.

[crispy.caesus]

yo wtf watched a great video and only then saw this is such a small channel, great work thx man

[HoloTheDrunk]

10:03 Having your work be held to high standards and continuously criticized is not the point of conflict here - that's just the norm in open-source. The issue is *how* it is criticized; as much as I like him and his work, Linus has far too often responded way too harshly to things (as seen in the article prior to this timestamp), often times just based on subjective feels he had about certain things.