Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Every video you watched today — on YouTube, WhatsApp, or streaming TV — almost certainly passed through FFmpeg somewhere along the way. It is probably the most widely used and least-known software on the planet: an audio and video toolkit that became invisible internet infrastructure. This is its history … Read more
In August 1993, a 20-year-old Purdue student was frustrated with Softlanding Linux System. Broken packages, a fragile installation, a distribution treated as an afterthought. Instead of continuing to patch SLS, Ian Ashley Murdock (Konstanz, April 28, 1973) announced that he would start from scratch — openly, in the spirit of GNU … Read more
On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki told the comp.os.minix group he was doing “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)”. Thirty-five years later, the kernel born from that hobby runs most of the internet servers, … Read more
On August 25, 2026, Linux turned 35. In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to comp.os.minix that would become history: Hello to everybody out there using minix — I am making a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional … Read more
Free software did not begin in 2017, and it did not begin at Facebook. It began with GNU (1983), the kernel a Finnish student released as a hobby (1991), and the Open Source Initiative’s definition (1998). What the industry did afterward — … Read more
