30 Years of Linux

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by Ashok Balasubramanian dot icon Updated: Sep 27, 2021

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It is a fantastic moment to reflect that the Linux movement is 30 years old! On August 25, 1991, graduate student Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os.minix that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.". The rest is history, and including Android, Linux now powers more than three billion active devices. It also has almost a 100% share of the Top500 supercomputers but lags in the desktop market with an under 4% share. Beyond the numbers, Linux today has been the poster-boy of the open source movement and has scaled open source as the most dominant software model. Multiple factors are contributing to the success. In my opinion, one of the most critical factors is the GPLV2 licensing model that enabled distribution and global innovation at scale. The kandi kit on 30 Years of Linux showcases popular Linux utilities selected by our users to celebrate the moment.

atomby atom

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License: Permissive (MIT)

:atom: The hackable text editor

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            atomby atom

            JavaScript doticon star image 59449 doticonVersion:v1.61.0-beta0doticon License: Permissive (MIT)

            :atom: The hackable text editor
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                      vlcby videolan

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                      License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                      VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

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                                vlcby videolan

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                                VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
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                                          Stacerby oguzhaninan

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                                          License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-3.0)

                                          Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

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                                                    Stacerby oguzhaninan

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                                                    Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web
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                                                              qemuby qemu

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                                                              License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                              Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

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                                                                        qemuby qemu

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                                                                        Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
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                                                                                  lmmsby LMMS

                                                                                  C++ doticonstar image 6751 doticonVersion:v1.3.0-alpha.1doticon
                                                                                  License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                                                                                  Cross-platform music production software

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                                                                                            lmmsby LMMS

                                                                                            C++ doticon star image 6751 doticonVersion:v1.3.0-alpha.1doticon License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                                                                                            Cross-platform music production software
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                                                                                                      gimpby GNOME

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                                                                                                      License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                      Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

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                                                                                                                gimpby GNOME

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                                                                                                                Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
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                                                                                                                          clamavby Cisco-Talos

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                                                                                                                          License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                                                                                                                          ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net

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                                                                                                                                    clamavby Cisco-Talos

                                                                                                                                    C doticon star image 3003 doticonVersion:clamav-1.1.0doticon License: Strong Copyleft (GPL-2.0)

                                                                                                                                    ClamAV - Documentation is here: https://docs.clamav.net
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                                                                                                                                              rsyncby WayneD

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                                                                                                                                              License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                                                                                                                              An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

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                                                                                                                                                        An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.
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                                                                                                                                                                  calligraby KDE

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                                                                                                                                                                  Office and graphic art suite by KDE

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                                                                                                                                                                            calligraby KDE

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                                                                                                                                                                            Office and graphic art suite by KDE
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                                                                                                                                                                                      baculaby redhat/centos-stream/src

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                                                                                                                                                                                      Source repo for CentOS Stream package "bacula". Please, follow [this guide](https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/contributing/source-git/) when contributing.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                baculaby redhat/centos-stream/src

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                                                                                                                                                                                                Source repo for CentOS Stream package "bacula". Please, follow [this guide](https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/contributing/source-git/) when contributing.
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