Why so many distros? The Weird History of Linux

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Why are there so many Linux distros? Take a brief journey through the history of Linux to understand hundreds of different distros exist today fireship.io/
00:00 In the Beginning
01:10 GNU + Linux
02:44 What is a Distro?
03:29 Slackware
03:48 Debian
05:30 Redhat
06:17 Arch
06:59 Independent Distros
07:58 Bonus Mindblower
#linux #dev #history
References:
Linux www.linux.org/
96.3% of servers run Linux www.zdnet.com/article/can-the...
Torvalds uses Fedora www.zdnet.com/article/look-wh...
GNU/Linux Unified Logo / solved_gnulinux_unifie...
Linux Army / linux_army_anyone
Distro Timeline upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

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@FranLMSP
@FranLMSP 3 роки тому
And remember kids: "Free" is about "freedom", not price
@MaximilianBerkmann
@MaximilianBerkmann 3 роки тому
Depends on the context, in the case of distros it's usually both (with some exceptions of course).
@eksortso
@eksortso 3 роки тому
True enough, but it gets complicated after that. The GPL logo which appears around 2:19 was made for version 3 of the license. But Linus disagreed with that version, and switched the license to Linux to be v2 only, so that it could not be released under GPL v3.
@dionyzus2909
@dionyzus2909 3 роки тому
yeah, gnu's general public license is very permissive about using the softwares licensed with it for commercial purposes. That's part of the "freedom" in it (:
@Sitwayen
@Sitwayen 3 роки тому
You do not get freedom with sex.
@FranLMSP
@FranLMSP 3 роки тому
@@Sitwayen maybe you are in a toxic relationship
@aroesynth
@aroesynth 3 роки тому
8:11 " He created git!" - Lol why not right
@KristherLouisVidal
@KristherLouisVidal 3 роки тому
Linus created this as a hobby. While I can't even remember basic email pattern for regular expressions
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 3 роки тому
Don’t use an RE to parse e-mail addresses.
@hellfire92837
@hellfire92837 3 роки тому
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Why not?
@VivekYadav-ds8oz
@VivekYadav-ds8oz 2 роки тому
@@Myrkvi_ holy shit lol! What happens if I send an e-mail with that e-mail address, from a supported provider, to someone with Gmail which can't understand such e-mail addresses?
@chaminda512
@chaminda512 2 роки тому
You don't have to so badly
@clp9601
@clp9601 2 роки тому
RE sucks bruh.
@vikashtripathi9184
@vikashtripathi9184 3 роки тому
When it came to version control controversy Linus said "Fine I'll do it myself"
@jfbeam
@jfbeam 2 роки тому
He was _perfectly_ happy using BK. [as was I, and thousands of other people] It was Andrew Tridgell that ruined it for everyone by continuing to dick around with cloning / reverse engineering bitkeeper (network protocol) even AFTER agreeing to stop. (I was never around Linus, but I'm told he was "pissed".) Kernel development slowed / stalled for a few months while Linus was forced to invent his own SCM. (no surprise git is very much like bitkeeper.) [There were lawyers involved. I was part of the evidence against him. Andrew was stomping on many a wiener. His "client" didn't act at all like a real "bk". When I set triggers to block his "client", he started mimicing the real "bk". The only way he'd know how is by using the real client -- a license violation -- or sniffing the traffic of someone else -- also illegal. Bitkeeper eventually took my trick to the extreme... "bkd" verifying the client's license.]
@Runeite51
@Runeite51 9 місяців тому
@@jfbeam screw that, I'm glad git was made.
@Ne-vc5pm
@Ne-vc5pm Місяць тому
​@@jfbeamwait, were you involved in kernel dev?
@jfbeam
@jfbeam Місяць тому
@@Ne-vc5pm I'm not Linus, Alan, or Greg, but yes, I was involved in kernel development at the time, but so were thousands of other people. Tridge's antics inconvenienced a great many people, including Linus who now had to go create his own SCM, and the entire linux kernel community for the months Linus was off dicking around with SCM's and not maintaining the kernel.
@Ne-vc5pm
@Ne-vc5pm Місяць тому
@@jfbeam wow thats so cool. But why Tridgell started to clone bit keeper? In wikipedia article its says that it was because some metadata was only available to commercial users. Is it true?
@michamaciejewski8895
@michamaciejewski8895 3 роки тому
Pls next : Story of git !
@sadhlife
@sadhlife 3 роки тому
True, would be a great video, would also want to know about things like subversion and mercurial
@maycodes
@maycodes 3 роки тому
+1
@r-ea
@r-ea 2 роки тому
bump
@haraldhwick
@haraldhwick 2 роки тому
Bamp
@VividVerseVentures
@VividVerseVentures 2 роки тому
check the commits
@gradientO
@gradientO 3 роки тому
Next video idea: filesystems exFAT, EXT4, FAT32, NTFS, etc
@hrushikeshpatil3772
@hrushikeshpatil3772 3 роки тому
I really want to see this video
@whenlifegivesyouLSD
@whenlifegivesyouLSD 3 роки тому
Yes
@subhadeepchatterjee1528
@subhadeepchatterjee1528 3 роки тому
yes please
@tomihawk01
@tomihawk01 3 роки тому
Gary Explains did a video about this recently. But I'd still love to see one here.
@softwarelivre2389
@softwarelivre2389 3 роки тому
YES!
@timberwoof
@timberwoof Рік тому
"Distro" means "Distribution." It's so obvious to Linux users that defining the term seems unnecessary. But to an outsider, that simple definition helps a lot of understanding.
@tonyramirez5707
@tonyramirez5707 Рік тому
Most of the difficulty from learning IT comes from everything being abbreviated fight me!
@otesunki
@otesunki Рік тому
@@tonyramirez5707 why should i fight a fact =V
@bettercalldelta
@bettercalldelta Рік тому
@@tonyramirez5707 facts
@nogoodgod4915
@nogoodgod4915 Рік тому
​@@tonyramirez5707 I'm learning frontend and now I have to decide if I want to create a SPA or not. If so do I use CRA but miss out on SSR and use CSR instead. Or go with a framework and create MPA with SSR.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 3 роки тому
8:12 He was actually forced to create Git. What happened was that BitKeeper was made available as freeware to the Linux developer community, hedged around with a great deal of caveats. One of these was “no reverse engineering”. Torvalds felt for some reason he could agree to these terms on behalf of the entire Open Source community. So when Andrew Tridgell was commissioned (by the FSF, I think) to reverse-engineer BitKeeper’s formats and protocols, Torvalds ordered him to stop. To which he responded in the predictable way. So Larry McVoy gave notice of the termination of the BitKeeper licence. Torvalds went off to ruminate on things for a couple of weeks, and came back with the beginnings of Git. And the rest, as they say, is history.
@jaimeduncan6167
@jaimeduncan6167 2 роки тому
Yep pretty good summary. There is always someone that believes they have the right to copy other people ideas, even if there is a accord not to do so.
@sujeewarathnaweera
@sujeewarathnaweera 2 роки тому
Remind me
@godfather7339
@godfather7339 2 роки тому
​@@jaimeduncan6167 whats wrong with copying other peoples ideas? Ideas are random, and nobody has the right to claim is as their own. if you are talking about labor, than you are right, even though it is inefficient, and we all will have to write our own UKposts from scratch.
@jaimeduncan6167
@jaimeduncan6167 2 роки тому
@@godfather7339 Ideas are not Radom, ideas requiere a lot of effort. For example any coding monkey can program an API, not everybody can design a good one. Any coding monkey can program an SQL parser, not everyone can design SQL. Any idiot can get windows 95 a program it for arm, and get an stupid phone with the windows interface running on an old. 320x200 miniature screen, not everyone can stop and think and create the Palm interface. In fact, you wanting to copy other people ideas show how valuable they are. Also ideas are risky, coding or building very little. Even today, decades later the ideas behind Unix are still guiding the technological progress. So much for random. Clearly ideas can't be protected forever, but they need to be protected for a while from people the subtract and copy.
@iamlordstarbuilder5595
@iamlordstarbuilder5595 2 роки тому
@@jaimeduncan6167 ideas are not property. You can’t (ethically) own an idea. What happens when someone else stumbles on “your” idea independently?
@daffaharyadi9647
@daffaharyadi9647 3 роки тому
Weaponized assault Penguin is an accurate representation of linux community
@baggier
@baggier 3 роки тому
WAP
@deoxal7947
@deoxal7947 3 роки тому
Linus saying he didn't want to call it Linux because it was quite egotistical is quite funny. I wonder if his ego grew because he yells at people in emails enough that it makes news sometimes. When speaking on video he seems quite nice though.
@iyxan2340
@iyxan2340 3 роки тому
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
@motoryzen
@motoryzen 3 роки тому
@Yes Yes Some do, but I wont chastise anyone for calling Linux mint..just Linux though...any more or less for the fact that I won't be rude for someone calling my Civic si just a car. (shrugs)
@thefrogge
@thefrogge 3 роки тому
@Yes Yes It's a copypasta
@karaway2117
@karaway2117 3 роки тому
"won't be a big professional thing" lol no
@ClifffSVK
@ClifffSVK 3 роки тому
The community: "I'm about to build this man's whole career"
@trapido0296
@trapido0296 3 роки тому
@@ClifffSVK But actually they started it LOL
@rosaleslem
@rosaleslem 3 роки тому
Narrator: It did. It was brutal.
@prabothmalsha4092
@prabothmalsha4092 2 роки тому
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@pham3383
@pham3383 Рік тому
Hobby programmers on the way to make every backbone important code for the industry:
@andresramos7965
@andresramos7965 2 роки тому
This moment when you realize, that this legend create a second project worth millions, only for manage his first big project worth millions
@VivekYadav-ds8oz
@VivekYadav-ds8oz 2 роки тому
*billions ...? Considering a lot of world depends on it.
@poiiihy
@poiiihy 2 роки тому
lol
@namesurname6294
@namesurname6294 2 роки тому
​@@VivekYadav-ds8oz 1000 million = 1 billion so I think saying "millions" can also mean "billions"
@guruthecodershorts791
@guruthecodershorts791 2 роки тому
@@namesurname6294 bruh
@StonkeyKong
@StonkeyKong 2 роки тому
@@namesurname6294 that’s like saying tens of dollars can mean a trillion dollars because 100,000,000,000 tens == 1 trillion.
@GiDaOne
@GiDaOne 2 роки тому
Gotta love the subtitles sometimes. "led to a period known as the eunuchs wars"
@kausarbangash007
@kausarbangash007 2 роки тому
😂
@perforongo9078
@perforongo9078 2 роки тому
Not 100% inaccurate. The word "Eunuch" is where "Unix" got its nsme. It was meant to be a more simple and paired down OS compared to a predecessor that was developed in the 60's.
@GiDaOne
@GiDaOne 2 роки тому
@@perforongo9078 I couldn't find any link to the word "eunuch", just that Unix was a play on "Multics".
@BatmanFailedSociety
@BatmanFailedSociety Місяць тому
1:00
@drakegabrielvereto8423
@drakegabrielvereto8423 3 роки тому
Watching it from a GNU/Linux based OS, a big respect goes to you, bro
@katech6020
@katech6020 3 роки тому
Watching it from Arch btw
@frenches1995
@frenches1995 3 роки тому
Watched on android so I count as well I guess
@ShaferHart
@ShaferHart 3 роки тому
@@frenches1995 that's probably his case too. He's a poseur.
@Windfarmer
@Windfarmer 3 роки тому
Android isn't GNU/Linux, it uses the Linux kernel but doesn't have the GNU components
@googleuser9422
@googleuser9422 3 роки тому
@@Windfarmer I think it does. If you install termux you can use those programs
@bilalmaleq
@bilalmaleq 3 роки тому
The community of Linux is so diverse that almost any discussion can turn controversial. The way you covered this topic is no less of an artistic genius! I use arch btw
@jousis_
@jousis_ 3 роки тому
What is controversial ? All distros are welcome ...to try (and fail) to be as good as debian :D
@heckbatglizzy
@heckbatglizzy 3 роки тому
@@jousis_ bad* shitian* hamgermbur*
@bluesillybeard
@bluesillybeard 2 роки тому
I use Pop_OS, and every computer I own runs some kind of Ubuntu. It is a very diverse community indeed, ranging from random people who want A Minecraft server (that's how I started) to people who commit to the kernel regularily(not me lol, I barely know C or C++)
@GimOA
@GimOA Рік тому
what's an arch
@Chase92488
@Chase92488 Рік тому
average alpine enjoyer
@queenannsrevenge100
@queenannsrevenge100 3 роки тому
I love what Linus said about creating git; he used concurrent versions system (CVS) as an example what NOT to do, and when in doubt on a decision point, made the exact opposite decision from CVS. 😀
@ebrelus7687
@ebrelus7687 Рік тому
Finding right by excluding what's wrong and picking what's left? Sounds like a critical mind. To find a solution you first need to acknowledge being in an error. Have a nice day
@kjgoebel7098
@kjgoebel7098 Рік тому
That's funny. I wish someone had told me that about ten years ago. I delayed learning Git for a long time because my only previous experience with version control software was CVS. If someone had told me it was the opposite of CVS by design, I would have wised up sooner :)
@sabin97
@sabin97 Рік тому
@@ebrelus7687 yeah. cvs was the error.
@ebrelus7687
@ebrelus7687 Рік тому
@@sabin97 Cool. I'm just thinking that paradigm of going opposite of a mistake won't work universally. May be much more worthy when pivoting from big mistakes but there are still cases of good things with small problems & their possible solutions. But it's often easier to start fresh & discover unknown possibilities where nobody looks than fix some old complexity everyone is hitting their heads at without second thoughts.
@sabin97
@sabin97 Рік тому
@@ebrelus7687 when there are only two possible choices, and you know for a fact that one is wrong, you choose the other. it could ALSO be wrong, but if that's the case then it means there's no right choice, because both are wrong. there are design decisions that are unavoidable. you cant simply create something magical. linus didnt just get the source code of cvs and went on to change everything. he started out fresh. and in binary decisions, he made the choice opposite to what cvs did. yeah. he was creating a version control system. A LOT of the design decisions are the same. because it's the same sort of thing.
@elliott8175
@elliott8175 Рік тому
Correction 0:49 - "Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were creating the Unix operating system". Ken Thompson wrote the (original) operating system solo in 3 weeks ... in assembly. He thought he was going to be be fired for doing so, because Bell Labs was told not to work on operating systems anymore. A couple years later Dennis Ritchie invented C (built on top of Ken's own language, B), Ken then tried rewriting Unix in C a couple of times, providing feedback about the language to Dennis - He didn't like using the language until Dennis added structures. Because C and Unix were both invented at Bell Labs, and were (after a few years) closely entwined, lots of people seem to confuse who invented what, and sadly often leave out how significant Ken's contribution was.
@Ryan-in3ot
@Ryan-in3ot 6 місяців тому
the real one left out is Doug McIlroy
@elliott8175
@elliott8175 6 місяців тому
@@Ryan-in3ot Yeah, I think so. Ken spoke very highly of him in one of his interviews, saying exactly that. However, I haven't been able to find out anything about him. Do you have any links?
@Ryan-in3ot
@Ryan-in3ot 6 місяців тому
@@elliott8175 There is a talk about the origin of Unix where he, Kernighan, and others are featured. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pGBkd3xwlmZomX0.html And I have seen him at other such talks (online, not in person)
@vuelancer
@vuelancer 3 роки тому
Seriously, you did a hard work on making this video!
@JosueRodriguez08
@JosueRodriguez08 3 роки тому
Simple animations. Wikipedia info...lo
@jorgeestebanmendozaortiz873
@jorgeestebanmendozaortiz873 3 роки тому
@@JosueRodriguez08 "Simple" animations which surely took dozens of hours in total.
@Hobbitstomper
@Hobbitstomper 3 роки тому
"While grandpa was dropping acid at Woodstock" - lines I never thought I'd heard in a developer video🤣
@dontbotherreading
@dontbotherreading 3 роки тому
*while, but yeah, no, a lot of software guys like weed, psychedelics, at least ones that I personally know.
@Hobbitstomper
@Hobbitstomper 3 роки тому
​@@dontbotherreading We devs stay away from hallucinogenics, we head straight for the psychostimulant stuff, like Ritalin and Adderall 😜
@hexerei02021
@hexerei02021 3 роки тому
@@Hobbitstomper why not both
@VivekYadav-ds8oz
@VivekYadav-ds8oz 2 роки тому
@@hexerei02021 You can, but only once.
@hexerei02021
@hexerei02021 2 роки тому
@@VivekYadav-ds8oz Human body can take a lot more than that.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 3 роки тому
5:38 That “security” aspect was a bit of a joke in the early days, when Red Hat installers tended to load on everything by default. A client of mine got hacked through a vulnerability in the SunRPC service, which we weren’t even using.
@NDHFilms
@NDHFilms 2 роки тому
Thank you for giving proper credit to Stallman and the GNU Project, a lot of people overlook that.
@christosm.2407
@christosm.2407 3 роки тому
"Some cars are designed to go fast...", of all F1 cars shows Ferrari.
@Fireship
@Fireship 3 роки тому
It looked fast... Apparently it's not the best F1 car?
@christosm.2407
@christosm.2407 3 роки тому
​@@Fireship Well...it's complicated. Let's say that it's not in the front row! (Senpai noticed me! 🤩)
@htky
@htky 3 роки тому
S🅱️innala
@erwinjitsu_3706
@erwinjitsu_3706 3 роки тому
MERCEDES!!!!!
@LoGaIta99
@LoGaIta99 3 роки тому
@@Fireship Not last year... Last year was one of their worst years.
@tanmaydeshpande
@tanmaydeshpande 3 роки тому
*mentions the fact that Linus created git in passing* "Like yeah man, I was not liking this software. So I built one of the biggest version control systems just out of spite. Y'know, everyday things"
@softwarelivre2389
@softwarelivre2389 3 роки тому
Just like Ryan Dahl "yeah, and then I create Node whatever" then creating Deno
@PhilipAlexanderHassialis
@PhilipAlexanderHassialis 3 роки тому
@@softwarelivre2389 His deno presentation was also funny as hell, demonstrating all the gripes that many of us subconsciously or not came up with and had to train our brains to accept, just because javascript then was less mature than today's version of the language. Plus, the moment it all breaks down when he almost started cursing at some faults of his own creation and the audience simply applauded because they finally had the official approval to voice their angst against theme same faults... priceless :)
@benruss4130
@benruss4130 Рік тому
SteamOS is actually Arch these days. A couple years back Valve split to Arch, and that was *before* this video was made.
@Deontjie
@Deontjie Рік тому
If Linux gave up on this splitting thing 15 years ago, it would have been the most populous operating system on PC's. But no, every bored nerd thinks he can do better. Meanwhile Microshit laughs all the way to the bank.
@benruss4130
@benruss4130 Рік тому
@@Deontjie I mostly disagree. Early Linux was not a legitimate competitor to early windows, which is when windows became the default. And nowadays Linux is superior to windows because of it's splits. It allowed and continues to allow devs an arena that rewards performance improvements and alternative approaches that often wind up superior then the predecessors. Yes, all of the distros are a bit overwhelming to the new-to-linux, but they have enabled Linux to become head and shoulders above any other OS.
@jahinzee
@jahinzee 11 місяців тому
@@benruss4130 In addition, there are a lot of projects and tools being worked on nowadays, like Flatpak, Pipewire, etc., that aim to make Linux application development more distro-agnostic and accessible. It's not 100% there yet, but I feel like we're surely getting closer by the day :)
@sayanghosh6996
@sayanghosh6996 2 роки тому
2:18 this would be the biggest blunder in this video according to me. Linux is released under GPL2 and not 3. When GPL3 was released torvalds clearly rejected upgrading to GPL3 because he doesn't agree with the license.
@shaileshaanand
@shaileshaanand 3 роки тому
Thanks for making Linux videos
@soham7510
@soham7510 3 роки тому
Bhai maine tujhe kahi dekha hai
@sriansuchoudhary916
@sriansuchoudhary916 3 роки тому
@@soham7510 he has a yt channel of his own - shailesh explains.
@soham7510
@soham7510 3 роки тому
@@sriansuchoudhary916 okay, maybe then
@JOJOSHgaming7514
@JOJOSHgaming7514 2 роки тому
Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds Legends that created the heart(engine) of computer programming.
@miladini1
@miladini1 2 роки тому
how about bill gates and steve jobs?
@hehexd2913
@hehexd2913 2 роки тому
@@miladini1 no lol. theyre barely even programmers.
@andreicapi3535
@andreicapi3535 2 роки тому
@@miladini1 dennis richie and ken tompson created the c programming langyage and unix. Linux , windows and macos are built with c .
@miladini1
@miladini1 2 роки тому
@@andreicapi3535 that's right. But if we wanna credit Torvalds, then I guess Gates and Jobs also equally if not more deserve respect.
@xpressionlesstrap
@xpressionlesstrap 7 місяців тому
​@@miladini1should've also credited Wozniak then, he is the one who actually designed and created early Apple machines.
@TheAcidMotion
@TheAcidMotion 2 роки тому
You should do more of these historical topics. I think people really dig it and I do so too. There are so many projects and great people behind them and amazing stories from the history of technology that deserve to be known.
@diannadimambro2188
@diannadimambro2188 Рік тому
Yes! Im a computer science major and stumbled onto this because my teacher wants us to learn about the history. stumbling onto this video, its really so cool
@tetst_54546
@tetst_54546 2 роки тому
I started using GNU/Linux in 2007, and I never looked back. My first distro was Aurox, which I only used for few weeks. Then there was the mighty Ubuntu 7.04 and few versions after that. However, my life has truly changed when I started using Debian. Since 2010, all my computers used Debian and I absolutely love it till today. It only gets better. I was very fortunate to always be allowed using Linux at work.
@bLd321
@bLd321 2 роки тому
Ah, mighty 7.04 Feisty Fawn. My first distro and the one that encouraged me to move from Windows. Was using Ubuntu until 10.04 when Canonical decided they wanna be a new Apple and moved window buttons to the left side. Lucid Lynx forced me to learn how to install Debian and today, twelve years later, I'm still in love with Debian.
@tetst_54546
@tetst_54546 Рік тому
@Mr. Unknown He only tried some ancient version which was difficult to instal and gave up.
@Ma1ne2
@Ma1ne2 3 роки тому
This video man ... your channel is awesome! Stopped multiple times in between to study the amazing info graphics! Keep up the great work, I love your channel and your focus on intermediate to advanced programmers!
@codelif
@codelif 2 роки тому
i like his channel especially the "100 seconds" series. Many people say that he teaches too fast in them but that's not the point. "100 second" series is not supposed teach you a language. It's to teach you what language to learn.
@sawwwru
@sawwwru 3 роки тому
Distro doesn't matter as long as you do something worthy in your life
@hdluktv3593
@hdluktv3593 3 роки тому
And you have a fedora profile picture... xD
@random-dude666
@random-dude666 2 роки тому
You words hit me hard! Became lazy these days!
@VivekYadav-ds8oz
@VivekYadav-ds8oz 2 роки тому
Yeah, a distro is there so you can open some application on it and do some work. Fighting over tools is stupid if you're not gonna use the tool to build something.
@wolvAUS
@wolvAUS 2 роки тому
Operating System as well :)
@eyyo3571
@eyyo3571 2 роки тому
Says the guy with a fedora profile picture
@hooya27
@hooya27 Рік тому
Linux has been a joy since I first installed Slackware on my 486DX2-66. I've dabbled with most major distros, and enjoyed the puzzle of getting cd-roms, printers, and sound cards to work back in the '90s and '00s. I used to have to compile a custom kernel to enable a Panasonic cd-rom! Fun times.
@BenKadel
@BenKadel 3 роки тому
This video was incredible and so insightful! This is a brilliant summary of the story of linux and really helped highlight why linux and the distros are the way they are! Another quality video sir!
@lorensims4846
@lorensims4846 3 роки тому
This is the most concise overview of Linux and its history I have seen. I first read about Linux at the end of an article in Infoworld back when it was still an oversized newsprint magazine. Must have been the spring of '92. I downloaded a root/boot pair of floppy images to write out and play with. Kernel v.0.97. The idea was that you load the 'boot' floppy and then just before you start the system you eject the 'boot' floppy and insert the 'root' floppy for your Linux filesystem. There wasn't much you could do with such a minimal system but it got my feet wet. I researched to learn as much as I could about the Soft Landing System which promised a user friendly entry into Linux, Yggdrasil had that cool name and a lot of people said they preferred it, but the only one I could actually figure out how to install was Slackware. Too many floppy disc sets to download over dialup so I only had a very basic system. Later I actually bought a copy of RedHat but got fed up with it before long, so I tried Debian, but it had it's own problems. It keeps wanting to autoupdate all the time. I might as well be using Windows. I tried several different distros as the trends changed but was never really satisfied. Eventually I came back to where I started and have been using Slackware ever since. It's the simplest, most plain-vanilla distribution, therefore the fastest and most secure. It's the most internally documented release and support is offered through the Slackware forum on LinuxQuestions.org. You say it was last updated in 2016. That was the 'stable' branch. We all run Slackware-current for the very latest software technology. Slackware-current is still more stable than most other distributions' "stable' releases. Oh, and it's the most Unix-like. I really appreciate that. It taught me everything I ever needed to know to work under the hood (through the Terminal) on my Mac which runs a version of FreeBSD.
@lorensims4846
@lorensims4846 3 роки тому
I'm running Alpine Linux on my iPad with an app called ish. Support is on their GitHub page. They'll tell you how to add the package manager that I assume was removed so that it would be allowed into the AppStore.
@ablanchi
@ablanchi 3 роки тому
Linux from scratch in 100 seconds?
@trunk2k
@trunk2k 3 роки тому
I can't download all the sources in 100 seconds, lol!
@itsfkf6106
@itsfkf6106 2 роки тому
You can do LFS in 2 hours if you have the sources pre downloaded
@Kodeb8
@Kodeb8 2 роки тому
This video is actually a very good, short, and easy to understand introduction to linux. I think I'm gonna send this to anyone that asks me what linux is.
@foreducation408
@foreducation408 2 роки тому
This is such a helpful video, for beginners or for anyone that is interested about Linux, thanks for all the hardwork.
@kandy1249
@kandy1249 3 роки тому
Wisdom: "It's better when it's free. :P" ❤️ I agree 😬
@hmm7458
@hmm7458 2 роки тому
not in every case
@bwiebertram
@bwiebertram 2 роки тому
@@hmm7458 free headset noises intensifies
@zuruumi9849
@zuruumi9849 2 роки тому
Yeah, but it also costs you much more if it's free...
@Ometecuhtli
@Ometecuhtli Рік тому
Well for many software companies and vendors if it's free then you're the product so you need to dig a little more onto that.
@PDD555
@PDD555 Місяць тому
​@@Ometecuhtlitrue. The good thing is that here the cost is not monetary but a social cost about talking about Linux lol
@Aaronmoreno
@Aaronmoreno 3 роки тому
Another amazing one! Love this history
@abhishekpratap8784
@abhishekpratap8784 3 роки тому
0:35 great words by great man
@susabara
@susabara 2 роки тому
3:40 thanks for having suse in the list. However: Suse parted ways with Slackware in the 1990s, moved over to become their own thing from scratch and be rpm packaged. And _open_SUSE, the step of going from in house development to an open community started only 2004.
@AndyQuinteroM
@AndyQuinteroM 3 роки тому
Every day I see more and more Linux content from various UKposts channels. Really cool to see the community grow
@transatlant1c
@transatlant1c 3 роки тому
Awesome video dude, you're killing it. I really enjoyed placing my entry to the Linux world on the greater timeline, if only I knew when I tried out feisty (7.04) it would change my live forever!
@gregoriodia
@gregoriodia Рік тому
There is a great book that Linus Torvalds co-authored called "Just for Fun: a story of an accidental revolution" - that describes early days of Linux and how that later influenced Torvald's life. A super well written book that is not technical at all.
@modus_ponens
@modus_ponens 3 роки тому
Calling Arch Linux simple and minimalistic is true for power user, but it is quite misleading for layman.
@user2C47
@user2C47 2 роки тому
"Empty" or "Blank" might be more descriptive terms.
@jimihenrik11
@jimihenrik11 2 роки тому
Arch is simple to the computer because it includes nothing, not to the user who needs to get that shit running.
@aika7974
@aika7974 2 роки тому
More like an empty space rather than "minimalistic"
@darontra
@darontra 2 роки тому
Not quite so, its true that there is no gui after install but a lot of necessary packages are already there. sudo -S pacman xf86-video-amdgpu xorg-server xorg-xinit dwm. Will give me working gui. (I know about compiling dwm from source lol but just for example).
@darontra
@darontra 2 роки тому
There are distros which actually more minimal then arch. Arch is more of a meme nowadays. Tons of install videos and even copy and paste wiki. No hate for arch tho. Grate distro, I use it for my laptop.
@avi12
@avi12 3 роки тому
4:02 That's hilariously genius
@tams805
@tams805 Рік тому
Not something many people in the Linux community are likely to admit to, but a lot of the different distros have come about because people thought their way was better and that that required a whole new distro. Little of it is about actual needs.
@user-hr4ye4pi2o
@user-hr4ye4pi2o 9 місяців тому
为什么复盖我的谷歌帐户冒充我上线
@bhavyakukkar
@bhavyakukkar 7 місяців тому
ends justify means
@johnnysilverhand1069
@johnnysilverhand1069 2 місяці тому
As a linux user I don't think any of us wouldn't admit to thinking their way is better 😂
@zordretpid4303
@zordretpid4303 Рік тому
6:45 Thumbs up for the visualisation of "rolling release" :)
@Salisbury2015
@Salisbury2015 Рік тому
This was a really informative video. I thought I knew a bit about Linux history but I learned a few new things here. Great job.
@pranab091
@pranab091 3 роки тому
Man you are uploading daily? Awesome content as always 😃
@zaheeruddinfaiz7064
@zaheeruddinfaiz7064 3 роки тому
I would love to see a series on history of other distributions. Great content 👍☺️
@emmanuelpoirier4602
@emmanuelpoirier4602 Рік тому
Excellent. that the kind of perspective which cast a lot of light on the subject and brings lots of order on a somewhat many piece jigsaw.
@ryzenforce
@ryzenforce 2 роки тому
@1:06 Best part of the video explaining the origin of it all in operating systems. And I am grateful to Stallman for GNU (and previously his fight against the corporation) and Torvalds for Linux because without them, we would be stuck in a nightmarish computer world controlled by Microsoft/Sun/IBM with 0 innovation for the people - well, if Apple would have had a better follow up of its Apple II we might have went through but the world wouldn't be as advanced computing-wise as it is today.
@lc9245
@lc9245 Рік тому
I've always asked myself whether it is the culture of software development that created GNU or is it GNU that spawned the culture of software.
@el-lo5920
@el-lo5920 7 місяців тому
I think that in truth, the BSD's will keeping existing in anyway, and GNU is not the ideal, like it's very far from beeing 100% POSIX, Busybox and MUSL LibC is way better, but not the ideal too. POSIX should be a manual to write a UNIX-based OS.
@jonlothar6126
@jonlothar6126 3 роки тому
I've been waiting for this so eagerly since yesterday when you told us this would be coming!
@doomnationalist
@doomnationalist 3 роки тому
Loving the spotlight on Linux!
@mahirfr
@mahirfr 3 роки тому
I freaking loving this channel what a video bro... Keep it up I am going to share this channel to my friends and family.. Amazing channel...
@leap123_
@leap123_ 2 роки тому
Fireship: There are 2 Linux families that came out in the early 2000s that are focused on simplicity, performance, and minimalism *Ah yes, Gen Z distros*
@davidomar742
@davidomar742 3 роки тому
This Linus guy is a legend. Didn't even know we have git thanks to him.
@------country-boy-------
@------country-boy------- 3 роки тому
Same here
@BytesVsStrings
@BytesVsStrings 3 роки тому
I miss the music at the end like the one in your old videos, it really makes me feel rewarded 🤗☺️☺️.
@naltun4702
@naltun4702 3 роки тому
I've been into Linux and the free software community for many years now. Honestly, this was one of the best intros to "What the f*** is Linux?" that I've seen. Thanks Fireship.
@testertech
@testertech Рік тому
Love the way you tell this! Should be the go to video for anyone not familiar with GNU/Linux.
@arclight7401
@arclight7401 3 роки тому
7:15 Some cars are designed to go fast >Shows a ferrari xd
@dimitryozz
@dimitryozz 3 роки тому
yeah.. 2020 was a painful to watch season :'(
@arxaaron
@arxaaron 3 роки тому
Wonderfully concise, comprehensive and historically accurate. THANK YOU!
@mackrevinack
@mackrevinack 2 місяці тому
when i switched to linux first i thought it was crazy how many different distros there were. it was quite overwhleming trying to choose one. but it makes total sense to me now that there is a different distro for every type of use case and for different philiosphies, and its actually more crazy that companies microsoft or apple think they can make a single OS that will suit billions of people
@brentbarr498
@brentbarr498 2 роки тому
Wow.. I learned A TON of stuff I had no clue about.. So happy I clicked this... being a geek has it's wonderful moments! Thank you!!
@JeroenTrappers
@JeroenTrappers 3 роки тому
I really missed knoppix, which revolutionized the installation process by making it possible to run the entire thing from cd or dvd.
@Ataraxia_Atom
@Ataraxia_Atom 2 роки тому
I love linux, when windows 10 released it totally tanked my old laptop, so I upgraded computers and put mint on my old laptop, it runs great and my son uses it
@DeathBender
@DeathBender 2 роки тому
I'm gonna show this to my buddy who is skeptical about Linux AND Communsim ;) :> Thanks for this !
@reubenroy
@reubenroy 2 роки тому
How is this person able to explain this topic better than literally Everyone else!! Amazing! Awesome videos!
@samarthpatel8070
@samarthpatel8070 3 роки тому
I've loved Arch ever since I move to linux
@katech6020
@katech6020 3 роки тому
Same
@MetalTrabant
@MetalTrabant 2 роки тому
I've only tried once to install it in VirtualBox... I've been stuck as to which key selects the needed packages (later found out it's the spacebar, I think). And as a newbie Linux user how the hell would I know what I need?! Most of those packages meant nothing to me back then... Haven't tried it ever since... but I'm looking for a good rolling release, so I might give a spin to one of the Arch-based distros, like Garuda.
@sanjay_swain
@sanjay_swain 2 роки тому
Arch is NOT for newbies.
@Eric.-.
@Eric.-. 2 роки тому
@@sanjay_swain yeah? the comment didn't say that it is
@sirgrem2988
@sirgrem2988 2 роки тому
@@MetalTrabant Honestly, if you're a newbie, you better stick to one of the popular distros like Linux Mint or Ubuntu, unless you're a masochist, that is.
@ronanharris8216
@ronanharris8216 3 роки тому
7:17 Some cars are designed to be fast : *Shows a picture of a completely red tractor*
@0007Shawn
@0007Shawn 3 роки тому
Copy, we're looking into it. Slow button on, Slow button on.
@phildenfer
@phildenfer 3 роки тому
I'm 29 years old and what's amazing with this is that most of these awesome people from the beginning at Bell Labs/AT&T, Ken Thompson, Lorinda Cherry, Brian Kerningham, etc. then afterwards people like Linus Torvals, Richard Stallman are still alive today (sadly not Ian Murdock, but he did not die of old age, and Dennis Ritchie), even if to younger conmputer science enthusiasts today, it feels like the history of mankind all the way from prehistoric times, all of this happened incredibly fast. It's so awesome that even if it feels like old software if you would boot up the first versions of GNU/Debian, etc, it's the same commands that you run today, with some updates of course, but most of it looks the same. I'm so thankful for all of their code that I use everyday for free, especially for those who intended it to be free and open source software from the beginning. To me, they are legends, we will always remember their names, but we should not forget that behind the big names, there are thousands of mostly anonymous FOSS projects contributors who are awesome too! I believe GNU/Linux systems will continue to improve (almost) forever.
@phildenfer
@phildenfer 3 роки тому
And now that licensed OS vendors like Microsoft, Apple and Google are trying to milk more and more cash from their users using software as a service licences and/or data collection, FOSS OSes might become even more popular even to mainstream users. Windows was so easy to install back in the XP days, now I have to unplug the router so I can get the option to create a local account and not an online account, and find opt-out options of each GPS data collection and Cortana stuff that I don't need or want. Then I have to uninstall trial versions of software I never asked for, which were only previously found on OEM installs... I have many PCs, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, but I only keep Windows because I can't run certain games on GNU/Linux...
@virendrakamble4210
@virendrakamble4210 3 роки тому
Manjaro KDE is my current primary OS. Great video as always!
@adnanamin1843
@adnanamin1843 3 роки тому
Seriously! This is how history should be taught in schools! ✌️ Loved it!
@dromedda6810
@dromedda6810 Рік тому
i switched from win10 to Manjaro for my workstation half a year ago and yes there is a learning curve. however i don't think i would be able to switch back because most things on linux just make sense compared to win10
@SunitKarmakar
@SunitKarmakar 2 роки тому
Started watching it on Manjaro, then used KDE connect to send open this vid on my Android phone and continue watching... Huge respect
@ghazitozri4989
@ghazitozri4989 3 роки тому
Keep on posting Linux videos and i ll be heree all day long
@Sladen70
@Sladen70 3 роки тому
So much left unsaid about linux's unique history. Loved your take on linux in less than 10 minutes though.
@lazarobl
@lazarobl 3 роки тому
03:00 I refuse to believe that you couldn't find a higher resolution of the GNOME logo than that half-hearted excuse of a pixelated mess!! haha :D
@hammadulhaq1640
@hammadulhaq1640 3 роки тому
gnome doesn't deserve any better
@noahluppe
@noahluppe 3 роки тому
@@hammadulhaq1640 i unfortunately had to use it cause cinnamon wouldn't run on my old machine...
@TheInfi
@TheInfi 3 роки тому
@@hammadulhaq1640 Gnome is awesome.
@maskedredstonerproz
@maskedredstonerproz 3 роки тому
@@noahluppe what about xfce??
@noahluppe
@noahluppe 3 роки тому
@@maskedredstonerproz it was a Linux mint system and it has been quite a while, wasn't into Linux back then and just used what worked for me
@gauravkumardey1032
@gauravkumardey1032 3 роки тому
I was waiting to hear something about Kali linux. Still enjoyed watching it. Thanks for making such unique content ❤️
@bakedveal2624
@bakedveal2624 Рік тому
Warty Warthog caught my eye at my local library one year, I had no idea, but soon started figuring it out. I am glad for ShipIt back then. I was so pumped checking the mail every day waiting on my Live CD.
@ginger8774
@ginger8774 3 роки тому
Note: Linux is under GPLv2, not GPLv3 (logo in video)
@Synthwave89
@Synthwave89 2 роки тому
I love Linux so much. Thank you to all the people who have made it possible to flourish to where it is now, we owe you an unpayable debt.
@EurekaTeklemariam-qu3ey
@EurekaTeklemariam-qu3ey 2 місяці тому
best basic intro to linux fireship keepit up men.
@zirokl
@zirokl 2 роки тому
Man, what a fine content. The editing...God bless you.
@safwanljd
@safwanljd 3 роки тому
Everyday I admire the GNU project more and more
@Sunnywastakentoo
@Sunnywastakentoo 3 роки тому
And then the legend made git so he's literally god.
@igorthelight
@igorthelight 2 роки тому
He and Carmack :-)
@92jhvm
@92jhvm 2 роки тому
These videos are sick man, digging the subscription
@eyyo3571
@eyyo3571 2 роки тому
Bro I love your videos. You got one more subscriber. Pls don't stop uploading.
@c462-
@c462- 3 роки тому
i don't think showing a GPL3 image at 2:15 is the best given how much Linus is against using this version of GPL
@NetMan_PL
@NetMan_PL Рік тому
Just want to sprinkle a bit of information: in addition to independent distros, there is Void Linux, which functions like Arch, but has its own package manager (xbps), and does not use systemd, bur rather runit.
@noeljose
@noeljose 2 роки тому
March 22, 2021 Fireship Released a video "Why so many distros? The Weird History of Linux". Feb 19, 2022, me watching the same video in my Linux. This video was encouraging
@dyllanusher1379
@dyllanusher1379 3 роки тому
I think I'm going to have to run an image of some of these distros. The one I'm most excited about trying is linux studio. I can't wait to learn more about linux, thanks for the quality content. I use Linux as a data person daily, but have only explored the standard ubuntu distro. It seems viable to make custom flavors to sell to a niche industry. I'm interested in learning more about how to make custom flavors of linux, or even design industry specific packages. However, I wonder if this would be against the general philosophy of Linus. He really seems like a legend in the open source mindset. Another part of me is thinking about that car analogy, and under that mindset the idea of an engine is what is open sourced. I personally wouldn't be morally conflicted thinking about building a car with that "open sourced" engine and selling it, so why should I be conflicted here? I guess the analogy between the linux kernel and a car engine breaks down here though. The car engine is made of a whole lot more mass than the physical linux kernel, so the engine took a much larger portion of resources to create. Thus, it isn't really open sourced since you have to source the materials from somewhere to make the engine. That is assuming you had a computer to begin with. I love this channel! You blow my mind with every video I've watched.
@JH-jk3nm
@JH-jk3nm 2 роки тому
you can charge for free software, since it if free as in freedom, not price
@kudreadityaprashant3621
@kudreadityaprashant3621 Рік тому
I switched to Ubuntu 20.04 from Windows 10 just a few months back. Honestly, that was the best decision of my life. The experience is really amazing. And it is damn easy to do any kind of programming in Linux. A million thanks to Linus Torvalds and the entire open source community. And thanks for making this video. It was fun to watch.
@fargeeks
@fargeeks Рік тому
I heard Linux mint is better
@bhavyakukkar
@bhavyakukkar 7 місяців тому
@@fargeeks who cares
@fargeeks
@fargeeks 7 місяців тому
@@bhavyakukkar I do
@bhavyakukkar
@bhavyakukkar 7 місяців тому
@@fargeeks if someone is happy with what they are using why rub your head in like "I heard Linux mint is better ☝️🤓"
@POINTS2
@POINTS2 3 роки тому
One thing to note, Red Hat killed off CentOS at the end of 2020.
@ArniesTech
@ArniesTech Рік тому
this was actually very comprehensive 💪🙏
@thej9898
@thej9898 2 роки тому
This is amazing, this is exactly what I have been searching all along.
@krtirtho
@krtirtho 3 роки тому
"You never used Linux? Oh you missed a good part of your life", once someone told me
@hariranormal5584
@hariranormal5584 3 роки тому
Thank god I know this OS since 14, and Im 15 heh, I helped someone who was 11 years wanted to install arch on his computer so helped him. i wish all people even the "non-techy" ones try it out
@SirusStarTV
@SirusStarTV 3 роки тому
You don't miss anything if you're just a casual user
@CarlosSMA_
@CarlosSMA_ 3 роки тому
@@hariranormal5584 have been using since when I was 13, now I'm 17 and it was totally worth learning, fixing problems, reading articles, being a part of this community and so on. Trust me, even if you don't work in IT, all of these experiences and ideas (such as foss, collaboration, etc) are gonna influence in how you use and spread your knowledge to make great things
@hariranormal5584
@hariranormal5584 3 роки тому
Carlos Eduardo Alvarez I am generally interested in Hardware, Computer engineering and so on (mostly hardware, not much software) and a bit of networking It's still useful to have Sys'admin'ing skills tho, I manage a few servers on the cloud owned by friends and stuff. Pretty fun thing to do! 😛 We were running centos, but because its updates are now limited and is gonna go EOL in a few months, we migrated to ubuntu (well I don't like ubuntu, friends forced me for getting ubuntu so i just did it)
@CarlosSMA_
@CarlosSMA_ 3 роки тому
@@hariranormal5584 personally, i like both areas, but I have little to none experience with hardware, do you have channel suggestions about it?
@abhishekgururani6993
@abhishekgururani6993 3 роки тому
I'm watching it on my Ubuntu. thank you to everyone who invests their time and energy in open source.
@devil179
@devil179 3 роки тому
i'm watching it on ky kali linux
@yes_this_is_saeko
@yes_this_is_saeko Рік тому
@@devil179 you're embarrassing yourself
@devil179
@devil179 Рік тому
@@yes_this_is_saeko dude what the fuck 🙂
@yes_this_is_saeko
@yes_this_is_saeko Рік тому
@@devil179 Kali isn't for daily driving
@chrisaa100
@chrisaa100 2 роки тому
Wow! One of the best video about Linux history 👍
@SabiazothPsyche
@SabiazothPsyche 2 роки тому
Once, my Being use to not even think about Linux. But in this instance, there is something about Linux that my Being is seethingly satisfied with. There's no comparison between Linux and Windows. Linux is truly incomparable. Thank you Linus Torvalds, for providing us all with a computing dimension that will eventually outweigh Windows.
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