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Linux 35th Anniversary - Linux.com

I'm three days late, oops:

No 35th birthday celebrations in El Reg or Phoronix 😢

Instead, I found something from its 12th birthday week:

Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist “Free” Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio.

“I was organizing this boss techno-art project called ’Off The Grid,’” Kaegle wrote. “We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we’d feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa.”

Added Kaegle: “But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam’s Country Crafts web site I’m working on. …” …

― No One Makes It To Burning Man Festival (2003-08-27)

Image: cropped from a Linux Foundation promotion (in the Wayback Machine)

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/328/celebrating-thirty-five-years-of-linuxRSS for NodeSun, 20 Sep 2026 22:45:03 GMTFri, 28 Aug 2026 10:52:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Celebrating thirty-five years of Linux on Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:18:56 GMT]]>14th August:

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@one_old_coder@piefed.social said:

slop slop

Whilst do understand that AI can be scary for some people, there's really nothing frightening about a birthday.

Some people like to celebrate, not moan, on celebratory occasions. Maybe a brandy will lighten your mood?

Tux―pictured below, one day after your expression of fear―is off duty this week, but I'm quite sure that he won't mind pouring a glass for you.

Pouring, or should I say serving? The new Power to Serve.

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#elegance #harmony #camaraderie #Tux #Linux #FreeBSD #AI

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/981https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/981Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:18:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Celebrating thirty-five years of Linux on Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:25:42 GMT]]>slop slop

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12692097https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https://piefed.social/comment/12692097Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:25:42 GMT