15 LINUX FACTS that your loved ones will never tire hearing about 😬
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00:00 Intro
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01:37 Tux got fat
02:18 Minix Creator did NOT like Linux
03:07 Linux was first to implement crucial stuff
03:52 Linux wasn't always under the GPL
04:32 Linux is the biggest software project in the world
05:07 Linux was almost called something else
05:51 Why is Tux Tux?
06:36 Linux has terrible codenames
07:16 Torvalds almost lost the trademark
08:00 Linux isn't just a kernel
08:24 Torvalds could have abandoned Linux
09:06 The other project Torvalds created
09:54 Linux runs Hollywood
10:35 Linux runs space
11:17 No science without Linux
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Linux is known for being relatively lean and not using too much disk space, but compared to its first version, it's positively bloated. The first Linux release used only 65kilobytes of disk space. Today, a compiled kernel uses 5 to 10 megabytes, which is about 153 times heavier than the original release.
Linux was initially created as a Minix clone. The creator of Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum said, a few years later, that Linux was obsolete, and that GNU Hurd would supplant it soon enough.
www.oreilly.com/openbook/open...
Linux has also been first to ever support the x86 64 bit architecture, and Linux was also the first to have USB 3.0 drivers added.
The Linux kernel was also initially released under a custom license created by Linus Torvalds, which imposed restrictions on commercial use of his project, and on redistributing it. Fortunately for all of use, this didn't last long, and with version 0.99 in 1992, the kernel moves to the GNU GPL.
web.archive.org/web/200708262...
The Linux kernel is also the biggest software project in the world, with the biggest number of contributors and companies involved in its development.
The first name Torvalds landed on was Freax, for Free Unix. But as things happened, hosting that Freax kernel was initially done by Ari Lemmke, a member of the staff for Helsinki's university, and this person created a directory called Linux, because that was Torvalds's working name.
In terms of mascot, and the name of that mascot is Tux, not because penguins wear tuxedos naturally, but because it stands for Torvalds Unix. Why a penguin, though? It's because Torvalds was bitten by a penguin.
But the linux kernel also has codenames. For example, version 3.14 was called "shuffling zombie juror", version 4.3 was "blurry fish butt", and version 6.0 is "hurr durr I'm a ninja sloth".
handwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Lin...
But also, the Linux name was almost lost to a trademark dispute. In 1995, someone named William R. Della Croce Junior, the most evil sounding name I ever heard, filed for a trademark on Linux. He then proceeded to send letters to various Linux distributors asking for 10% royalties, as the ultimate one person patent troll.
Steve Jobs offered Torvalds a job around the year 2000, with a sizeable salary, and a good position in the organization. The pitch was "work on Unix for the biggest user base". The only condition was that he abandoned Linux and stopped working on it altogether.
www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/28...
But Torvalds isn't just the creator of the Linux kernel. He also created Git.
Linux is basically running the film industry and Hollywood. The first movie to use Linux was Titanic in 1997, rendered using OpenSUSE, but it didn't stop there. Avatar's effects were rendered on Linux server farms. lord of the Rings? Linux. I Robot? Linux.
Linux also runs the space industry. And also, in the supercomputer world, Linux is the ONLY option. Out of the fastest 500 supercomputers, Linux runs 100% of them, or at least it did in early 2023. - Věda a technologie
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i touth 1st it was lenox not minix
@@joegravel2488jftnn5 me tnn88😅6 6.5oz is ikft1a😮77
The company that makes "Linux" detergent also produces a clothes softener called "Micro&Soft", as well as a stain bleech called "Mäc Oxi". They know exactly what they're doing.
Yeah, I've seen that picture.
(For people who haven't seen it: look up "linux micro&soft".)
Naghgghh
Because windows makes real men sof-
😂
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It's really mind blowing how something that was just a small hobby project for Linus ended up having such a huge impact on the computing world and especially for servers.
Without linux internet would have been a very expensive place
@@sanjayKumar-sx5bv and crappy
And git
Linux would've stayed a hobby project without its inclusion in GNU project. Its that inclusion which brought Linux out to the larger world. As a result, by early 2000s Linux became developed enough that when IBM (and others) were looking for MS Windows alternative in their struggle against Microsoft, they turned to Linux.
Being picked up by IBM is the 2nd most important reason of why Linux didn't died as a hobby project. There $2B investment ~2001 will be ~$3.21B in 2023 USD. And that's what made it the industry powerhouse that its today.
When we talk about things like "Accidental Revolutionary", "Hobby product" etc, we must remember the larger revolution of Free Software and the seismic shift in the tech world that was happening.
@@sanjayKumar-sx5bv as if *bsd didn't exist back then.
In Polish we say "Git" as an "Okay" replacement. It's always confusing when someone talks about git 😁
well you speak properly then
in british slang a git is an arrogant little goblin of a man, which makes it even funnier imo
edit: this was kinda mentioned in the video, hadn't reached it yet lol
git in portuguese.....means...Git
In Turkish "git" means "go"
@@sezer1651 in the southern US it means the same
It would have been interesting if Linus had taken the job at Apple, I am sure that there would have been stories about him and Jobs fighting quite often.
Oh yeah, I think they would have clashed a lot
Probably he would flip the bird at Steve Jobs and leave the company to begin with.
I guess it would have been the death of Linux as it was at its early age. Thankfully he didn't work at Apple.
In case of a big clash Torvalds/Jobs, Linux would probably have continued its way but would have been deprecated/late to compete with macOS or Windows, maybe !?
> Linus fights with Jobs
> Linus fired/quits
> 10 years later
> Announcing iLinux
@@ybcanal21 plot twist: he would made Apple ecosystem open source.
Funny (sort of) old story. The head engineer at a Garmin division, talked me into helping him change all of the servers and workstations over from MS to Linux. During the Christmas holiday break, and much beer, we did that. Put the MS splash screen in, and changed icons etc. At a corporate meeting six months later, everyone was bragging about how wrong he was about MS being junk, and expensive. He then spilt the beans, and showed them the productivity and expense reports. Don't know where he put the beer, in the accounts.
Funny story !
@Bread Dough Yep it happened. Don't know why you think that they would need to login all the time, and corporate users looking for their C drives, on workstations?
@Bread Dough Corporate zombies don' need to do "various operations". They aren't coders, and for the most part wouldn't know the "C" drive, or command line from Adam's left hind nut. We're talking corporate users here dude. Spreadsheets, wordprocessing and weekly, monthly, quarterly reports etc. Worker drones fer crying out loud. Not the R&D engineers in back, who thought the whole thing was a hoot.
@Bread Dough I don't see any reason they would need to use "sudo" to do anything. C drive? Every file manager I've used shows mountable partitions. Yes it doesn't say C: driver but it says the partition label.
@Bread Dough pkexec, the GUI that asks for the user's password, is only used for operations that need elevated privileges, just like sudo. Have you ever paid attention to the amount of times windows asks you to run something as administrator? If you try to enter some system directories, it asks for permission. If you try to install an application, most of the time it asks for permission. If you pay so much attention to the fact that in the file manager, partitions don't have the letter assigned to them written next to them or the fact that windows out of all of the operations that require administrator permissions, doesn't need it for formatting a thumb drive, I would argue that you're paying less attention to what you should be doing as a corporate employee and more to your "Windows" UI.
Once I read someone idea about Linus Torvalds should be a Nobel Laureate (peace or economics). I cannot agree more, the impact of Linux and Git is massive, humanity rely on them. Of course is not only because of him but somebody must represent the idea.
Oh yeah totally
Yeah, I don't think the Peace one is gonna happen if they read the kernel mailing list 😬
@Filipe Motta Economics though, because Red Hat was able to make a profit off of Linux support, something very few other companies could and still can do.
@@cameronbosch1213 That makes much more sense, indeed.
He truly deserves a Turing Award after he retires
Torvalds was right to defend his all arguments about his Kernel,and now..we are here....
Yeah, Tanenbaum was pretty wrong
Interestingly Linux does have some things that seems like it should be in a microkernel. FUSE is probably the one I can point to which does userspace file systems
Where we are is a point where lots and lots of systems run Minix, it's the OS that runs the Intel Management Engine. I'm not sure about the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if that makes Minix more common then Linux. So while Hurd failed I don't think Tanenbaum lost.
@@foobar8894 Tanenbaum argued Minix was lightweight, portable, and modern. Intel management engine is anything but. It takes seven minutes to boot, and no, It's not everywhere. Just on Servers and Xeon workstations.
@@armandaneshjoo pretty sure you’re absolutely wrong
Another fun fact: You know that a dot before the name of a folder and file make them hidden, right? That was a bug, the kind of bugs that turned into features
Yeah, but that was on Unix, Linux's father, so to speak.
Linux just copied that behaviour. 🙂
@@emiliomorello9419 gnu copied that behavor, linux is the kernel
8:10 the worthy competitor to dishwashing liquid Vim
Nick, Minix actually is one of the most popular OS due to be embedded in all intel CPUs for some management! In fact one day I was reading a rather strong complaint from the creator of MINIX that Intel practically never notified him that he was using his operating system on all Intel CPUs.
That's the permissive licenses for you. Corporations can freely use your code for their purpose without contributing back anything, which is still fine, but they could also turn the code against consumer interest.
@@HajimeOtaku I thought Minix explicitly banned commercial use, like Linux did prior to Linus Torvalds making Linux GPL v2 in 1992?
@@cameronbosch1213 Old versions were proprietary. It's under BSD since 2000
That's what happens when your license is _too_ open.
@@arantes6 Unfortunately 10 years too late. Who knows it might have “won” the market over Linux if it had been made open-source out of the gate. Ironically the book publisher had forbidden it, but they would have sold so much more books if Minix had gained traction.
Thank you Nick!!! That was a great walk through the history of Linux. There were a few facts I had forgot about and a couple I did not know.
0:24 this moment shall never be made into a gif out of context.
You forgot the birthday of Linus and his childs in the kernel code... Nice feature
Speaking about linux version naming, my favorite by far was Linux 3.11 For Workgroups :D
Mine too, but I think that these days most people are too young to get it.
@orenbarnea2841 it's not about age, it's mostly about knowing OSes development history.
I suppose that was AFTER the Microsoft flavor appeared, but I wonder...did they call it that as a one-upper to Microsoft?
@k.b.tidwell6910 Torvalds named it like this around 20 years later (Win 3.11 - 1993, Linux 3.11 - 2013)
interesting linux fact:
I use arch BTW
Hahaha of course!
I began with FreeBSD before Linux (as server not desktop computer).
I used Linux as desktop and switched my servers to have an homogeneous ecosystem.
I am currently installing a new FreeBSD... Because I have a empty computer for testing purposes and I still love FreeBSD.
Sounds like you should start a channel called the FreeBSD experiment
Love the topic of this video, feels nice to have something more chill to watch! About my loved ones....Yeah they are pretty tired of my talking about how superior Linux is lmao
Hahaha mine too 😂
As tired as coworkers are of hearing me be glad I didn't wait any longer to install Fedora KDE so I don't have to deal with W11 anymore. Also we do odoo development, so the rest use VMs to run Linux to get work done.
2:57 "No one uses Minix"
The Intel ME that's built into all modern Intel cpus runs Minix, so many people have Minix on their computers.
Cool video btw! There were a few neat facts that I didn't already know about before.
@Darius Drake yes, but intel does. Who doesn't love spywares running at the hardware level that can't really be turned off without bricking your system? All thanks to the permissive licenses for their free contribution in intel's endeavours.
@@HajimeOtakuI guess we need to kill it with fire
That's interesting but I never heard someone praising for having Intel ME pre installed tho
@@dermond obviously some customers (corporate security) of Intel loves it, otherwise it wouldn't be a selling point.
Don't forget the entire SCO Unix lawsuit debacle. Or the Halloween Documents from Microsoft! Brodi did some of that so that might be why you didn't, but I remember those a lot. Great video btw! Some of the other things you listed I forgot about or didn't know! I first started using Linux when Linux first released it around 1991/1992 while I was studying computer science in college. It was such a great feeling to bring a bunch of floppies to install Linux on my 80286 PC and having a unix command prompt show up instead of DOS. It was so much fun (and still is).
Update: it was my 386 machine not 286. I had a 286 but then built a 386sx and that's what I ran Linux on.
Oh yeah there are so many other history related things I need to look into!
Linux never ran on a 286. The minimum processor was a 386SX.
It used instructions available only on 386 and better for task switching.
@@Hauketal you're right. I remembered incorrectly. I had a 286 at first, but then built my first PC which was a 386sx because the 286 machine was not upgradeable. It was a Tandy and I vowed from that point forward that I would only build my own PCs and it's been that way ever since. Lol. So yes, it was on my 386sx that I first ran Linux on.
This is the first time I heard about MINIX, but I had heard that Linus Torvalds was the first developer of GIT. He said in an interview that he invented Linux and Git because he wanted to deal less with people while working.
Back in ’98 I attended a talk at a Linux conference given by someone from the special effects company that worked on Titanic. He told all about their rendering setup.
Linux Torvalds: "I normally don't get into flames" - I laughed at this.
Excellent video, Nick. It's going into "required reading" for my college IT classes.
You’re nailing the sponsor segways and I’m so here for it!
This is one of the top few CZcams videos I've ever seen. It doesn't help me do anything, but it's as interesting as it can be! Thank you!!
We ahould always copy & paste a link to this video eveytime some Windows fanboy says no one uses or cares about Linux. Thanks Nick.
that laptop you showed seems like supports partial water cooling. Atleast it has got the exact same heat sink and internal design as the one shown in linus tech tips recently, with that extra heat pipe with holes for water inlet and outlet(the weirdly shaped one placed oddly over the rest of the heat pipes)
It does yeah! It works well, I have a video on it on the channel (it’s the Stellaris 17 if I remember correctly)
@@TheLinuxEXP oh sweet! I really wish we had these things here in India tho. Here we hardly get any proper Linux notebooks like the rest of the world, though the Linux user share is about 8 percent, highest in the world!
I knew most of those things...but then again, I started using Linux in 1992. I even built a distro, MfxLinux for a company that I worked for.
no denying that linux was a blessing for science in general
Apparently, there was an unofficial linux mascot called Xenia, a fox lady, I don't remember where it comes from, but the idea that a anthropomorphic fox representing one of the most important projects today is funny to me.
(let's make a petition to make her the official mascot)
actually quite fitting since i swear over half the community is furries
'Sheep On Meth' sounds like some kind of psychedelic covers band, probably quite fond of Hawkwind.
Li = Linux
n = not
ux = Unix
Linux Is Not UniX
@@dirklangohr Linun
@@livingcodex9878 Damn I f'ed it up. Thanks for pointing it out, corrected it.
I remember it being "Linu(s) (UNI) X". I imagine the "Li(nux) n(ot) U(ni)X" one was applied afterwards?
@@miguelguthridge As far as I know, it was never applied. This is the first time I come agross this acronym, but it's for sure not the first time people came up with it
I was really hoping to see the same sponsor as the last video. I really enjoy their work
I had an old computer with no hard drive at one point that I used as a router (before such cheap devices for home use existed). At the time we only had dialup internet, and it would automatically drop after a few minutes of no use. I had a second phone line for business us, so I programmed this linux box to monitor the connection and automatically redial/connect when the internet connection died. So my home computers were basically always connected (all be it with a slow dial connection and periodic brief outages while my linux router re-established its connection). It booted linux off a 1.54 MB floppy and ran "in core" without any problems. No GUI or desktop or XWindows ... just a console. But it did the job fantastically.
That's so cool that it's almost analog. As an older guy who feels most of the time that I'M running on dialup without a hard drive, I appreciate your experience there.
Very informative, and exciting video. Thanks Nick.
That was a great list! You hit several things I didn't know. I didn't know Linus Torvalds created git. I didn't know about Freax (the Internet would've never let that one go). And I didn't know that the big name movies used Linux servers for those things.
That last one makes me want to tell Adobe to get with the program already and just port their software over already before they get left behind.
Freax would have made us look like even bigger nerds 😅
I agree. If DaVinci Resolve can run on it, then so should more video editing software!
Maybe they could take advantage of Apple's piss poor 2023 Mac Pro!
…even Disney and Pixar, Linux teams are sometimes mentioned in credits.
And not only blockbusters rely on Linux but all of projection booths in theaters around the world : search for Digital Cinema Initiative and Digital Cinema Packaging ;-)
The features you see on the big screen are read from Linux servers, as storage and transport of DCP data go through EXT2/3 file system.
A choice made to avoid vendor locked-in as open source file system give ability of long-term service and archiving.
Great video and a pleasant journey through the history of Linux. Keep posting dude.
My love one has got interests in Linux or computers for that matters, I think they suffer from selective hearing. 😂
Hahaha yeah my significant other is also pretty bored with me talking about Linux 😂
Now I know what detergent buy when I'll go to Switzerland
Interesting. Now I wish I had some loved ones to tell this to.
That was a very interesting video, nice one!!
7:16 that's got to be one of the most historic moment about winning against a patent troll
My first time messing with Linux was on the submarine sonar system where I learned how to use the command line.
I hope the keyboard wasn't too clacky.
Hi Nick, love your channel. From the README for git, Linus states it’s an acronym on a good day for ‘Global Information Tracker’ and on a bad day ‘God-damn Truck load of S**t’! Love that early 90’s developer sense of humour 😂
Thanks, this was interesting and entertaining!
I can't wait to tell my loved ones about it!
6:05 Don't fall for it guys. One acts cute and cuddly...the other 3 are always up to something.
One of the few youtubes that spend the day standing up, it will grow x2
7:50 I'm glad Linux Torvalds won the trademark to Linux. Imagine if Linux couldn't call Linux Linux. What a win for Linux and Linux!
On more than one occasion I have taken a DVD that Windows
had "condemned", put it into my Linux OS and it worked perfectly.
"Nobody remembers Minix"
Objection! I have the book on my shelf, and studied the code, but I have never run it.
Didn't know that there existed a Linux detergent brand, it does however seem to be a German sold thing, either Swiss / Austrian or German, really would have liked to snatch a bottle to go with the rest of the Linux related items :D
Nothing in this world has as many siblings as The Mighty Linux. 😻😻😻
You are doing the linux community a great service by being . . . fun
The comments about linux kernel size made me chuckle. I remember when we used to put the kernel and a small userland on a 1.44 mb floppy to run routers off of.
"When you want to get some really serious work done, you use Linux!" For the vast majority of us, this holds true, whether we know it or not, Linux underpins things we depend on the most! (I work for an electric utility company too)
8:15 LOL Well played!
Thanks, Great video
0:12 TIL I am Linux years old. hopefully I can put that into questionairres when they ask my age
Loved to learn so much on Linux
I learned everything from this video expect for the Frix OS name Linus wanted to name LInux! Great job!
You built up my expectations by announcing the codename for 3.14 and then tore them down when it wasn|t a math pun.
7:40 In 1997 Torvalds proceeded to jump Della Croce in a dark alley
Great documentary - I never realized the genesis of Linux was so convoluted. I guess Hollywood has at least one redeeming quality....😉
Thanks for reminding me how old I am. I remember downloading the first release of Linux the day it was available. It was a slackware release that you put on a bunch of floppy disks as was the way back then. It was a pain to configure, especially Xwindows, you had to know all kinds of info about your monitor geometry and your graphic card. Things have improved greatly since then.
Have been using Linux since in one way or another. Now it's my daily driver.
Always a good day when The Freax Experiment drops another video!
Funny enough, one of my previous roommates, a 60 years old man, mentioned MINIX to me last year. So at least one person remembers!
Please master, teach us all of the Linux cheat codes
Wow thanks, I didn't know any of those things. I've been on Linux since 2012!
I love your Pijama. Great video :)
Lol, I thought you were not gonna do a sponsor today, aaaaand then you went with that smooth segue... 😂
Hahaha I’m improving 😏
I was a hard core windows user back in 2005 when MS Visual studio was popular. I used to automate lots of data retrive, transform, then publish process. Then. NET 1.1 came out. It was slow, buggy, and was chewing ram like nothing. Just starting application was slow. Then out of curiosity I started to poke around with Linux since I had an extra computer which has half the speed and resource of my main computer. I created the same program that I am running in windows and watch it run faster and take far less memory then windows. I was surprised and thought this could be due to I have a lot of things installed in Windows. After a few months I started to move more and more programs to Linux since those programs ran faster. Before I noticed all my work I did on Linux and I only used windows for games. Till today this is still true.
I use mostly a Mac and sometimes Windows for the MS Office apps and Windows for some solutions, like the KNX ETS5/6 and Gira Expert applications, that are Windows only. I started programming Excel macros in the days prior to VBA, so I am pretty vested in the environment. I do have a PowerEdge T430 w/16 disks in three hw arrays and 96GB ram running Proxmox, an RPI with PiHole and a Synology DS1819+, so I do use
Linux daily in some form. However, many people, including myself, have reasons for using other desktop operating systems.
I once watched an airliner entertainment server reboot, and hey, presto, Linux! Don't remember the distro.
Nice explanation
10:05 small correction.
openSUSE initial release was in 2005. Back then it was just called SuSE
"Displaced humorous anterior"
literally lmao
I laughed out loud when you saidthat William R. Della Croce Jr. was the most evil name ever. It's so true! xD
Linus isn't toxic he's just Finnish. That's the way they are.
My favorite egotistic Unix trivia is that 32 bit Unix time overflows on my 42nd birthday.
Excellent Linux factoids!
It's not bloat - is healthy blubber for swimming in the Southern Ocean 🐧
I'm pleased to learn that Tux is a kororā (Eudyptula minor) our native New Zealand penguin.
It is something I always suspected for some reason.
It shows the species has good taste , that one tried to eat Torvalds.
The capital ,Wellington, has penguin crossing signs around the harbour. Last year a pair tried to take up residence in a CBD cafe.
10:10 Is it no coincidence that the CGI for Avatar and LOTR was done by Weta Digital , based on one of these very same coastal roads in Wellington? They probably used local penguins as software consultants
"imagine a flight system rebooting mid-air due to an update", next time someone asks the difference between updates on Windows vs Linux I'll remember this
Great Fun Facts about Linux Nick! 🙂
I'd forgotten about the genesis of Tux and didn't know about Tuz which explains a lot! 😲
Even more good reasons to become an Exponent & Fanboy! 👍
Thanks!
As always writing a comment to support the channel
Great vid, been using Linux on and off since mid nineties, with the full switch in 2009 as my daily driver, as I did know some of these facts, not all, but the thing that stood out to me was the far reach, as working fortune 500 company, we used almost 100% Linux for servers, but Hollywood, aerospace and super computers....awesome
Torvalds: "that would be very selfish.
So lucky I am selfish"
Now that you've put it this way, Linux seems pretty good!
Linux detergent 😂 , a clean install is the future!
5:48 I will never get tired of your Linux jokes
4:49 Hmm, that graph is interesting. IBM and Red Hat are more than graphically close. IBM now owns Red Hat!
You forgot Linux went to Mars. 😁
As a linux user I would definitely try that LINUX detergent. By the way, does someone know what kernel version is that detergent based on?
I knew most of this, but I didn't know that kernel releases had codenames and what Git was named after.
Kernel codenames are hilarious!
Answered most of my questions that I have in my curiosity.
BTW
CHEERS!!! WE ARE LINUX USER!!!
Torvalds is truly a great man
Made me feel proud!
You killed it with the video title 😂
Super intéressant, merci