📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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📰 GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released
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