I work on a FLOSS data center management framework. 13 years ago, while at the office preparing to configure a new server, I had a flash of insight seeing the entire data center managed by such a tool. I saw it complete in my head. And since then, I'm still working towards that goal, that I'll never really reach.

It's open source so... It does if you want it to. ;-)

If Elon Musk can deadname, we can too.

Somewhere, a guy in a lab coat and with a microwave starts to laugh like a maniac.

I understood this reference!

Free as in "free speech", not free as in "free beer".

Both.

In the age of AI, vibe coding and cloning software, I don’t think this matters anymore.

Little Bobby Tables strikes again!

Perhaps the previous birth rate was artificially increased due to inequality imposed by part of the population. More equality and opportunity for everyone means more choices and less pressure to reproduce. What's the base birth rate for human species?

In Plan 9 you would get an easy way of namespacing by just unmounting some directories.

All those game mashups made recently by LLMs... Give me a port of Firefox on Plan 9, I'll be impressed then.

Tell that to MinIO users, lol.

Is it just a hobby, and won't be big and professional like gnu?

Only runs on 80386 since that’s all I have.

quick, let's find the author's shirtless beer drinking pictures before they get deleted

Plz explain context

Not just a hobbyist,* an enthusiast[1[2] previously[3[4].

[1] https://x.com/seiyanuta [2] https://seiya.me/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631873 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986229

* I do get the reference and releaize I'm changing the class of the referent. Anyway FTL (or the next one...) FTW, godspeed.

I think they will. It’s a pretty famous quote, even among people who were not old enough to see it first-hand at the time when Linus made that Usenet post.

I read about it some 20 years ago in an (auto?) biography about Linus, saunas, that thing where he had to reverse engineer posix specs. And minix was either evil or an academic purist

Edit: there was so much drama now I remember

I'm old enough but didn't get it. Though I was into Unix at the time, I never looked at Linux till 2004.

I did recognize it when it was brought up here but not before.

thanks to your comment we all understood that you got it though, which is the point!

also, thanks to your comment, unaware folks will probably figure it out, which is the subtler point!