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museum of linux linux wing of the weenie museums weenie museums campus unix wing linux wing gift shop visitor linuxweenie open_museum sh museum of linux the rowdy younger sibling wing of the weenie museums campus memes welcome sudo required beards optional the unix wing across the hall has enough for everyone home distro hall of fame shame the great flame wars gift shop welcome fellow weenie this is the linux wing the loud meme literate perpetually reinstalling branch of the weenie museums campus our sibling wing the museum of unix is full of distinguished greybeards who remember when the cloud just meant someone else s mainframe we love them dearly we simply boot faster everything here is true ish everything is affectionate and everything runs on hardware somebody rescued from a dumpster in 2011 please do not lick the exhibits the penguin is a mascot not a snack 1991 it began with a post helsinki august 1991 before the kernel before the distros before a single flame war there was a humble message posted to the comp os minix newsgroup by a 21 year old computer science student named linus torvalds announcing a little project he was tinkering with in his spare time i m doing a free operating system just a hobby won t be big and professional like gnu for 386 486 at clones historians of technology generally agree this ranks among the great understatements of the millennium the hobby went on to power most of the world s servers supercomputers phones routers and at least one toaster we have chosen not to verify placard note the original post is a matter of public historical record we quote it briefly here the way a museum quotes the magna carta with respect and a little awe tux the penguin tux the linux mascot artwork by larry ewing public domain via wikimedia commons photo is illustrative of the mascot itself not a live penguin adopted in 1996 tux is the roundest smuggest brand ambassador in computing legend holds that linus was once nibbled by a penguin at a zoo and found the experience charming enough to crown the species the museum takes no position on the nibbling the penguin remains unbothered tux has since appeared on desktops server racks conference badges and an unreasonable number of plush toys a plush concept awaits on our gift shop shelf the kernel one commit at a time since 1991 at the heart of every linux system sits the kernel the monolithic core that talks to your hardware so your apps don t have to it is one of the largest collaborative software projects in human history built in the open by thousands of contributors released on a brisk cadence and held together by mailing list threads of legendary politeness politeness not guaranteed see the great flame wars fun fact for the placard the kernel s versioning once jumped from 2 6 straight to 3 0 partly because the numbers were getting silly we respect that energy this museum s exhibit numbering will never exceed 2 6 casualties zero kernels were harmed in the making of this exhibit several were compiled the year of the linux desktop since approximately 1998 enthusiasts have predicted that next year will finally be the year of the linux desktop the year linux conquers the mainstream consumer pc it has been next year for over a quarter of a century the museum s official position is that the joke is the desktop and the desktop is eternal predict_desktop_year sh our oracles currently predict next year they have never been wrong about being wrong package managers the original app store long before phones had app stores linux had apt pacman dnf zypper and emerge one incantation tens of thousands of programs zero toolbars zero would you like to install our partner s weather widget nothing says i have ascended like typing one line and watching forty packages resolve their dependencies in perfect harmony nothing says i have descended like a dependency conflict at 2 a m both are on display both are beautiful please whisper near the emerge display it is still compiling continue the tour enter the distro hall of fame and hall of shame witness the great flame wars safely behind glass browse the concept gift shop shelf visit our distinguished elders at the unix wing bring your own beard image attributions tux artwork by larry ewing public domain via wikimedia commons source page all other visuals are hand coded css a loving parody museum all exhibits affectionate