{"id":176821,"date":"2016-08-23T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176821"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:09:29","slug":"linux-turns-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176821-linux-turns-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux turns 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux operating system kernel turns 25 years old on 25 August 2016, with the project having grown immensely over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2016\/08\/on-linuxs-25th-anniversary-development-has-gone-corporate\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Linus Torvalds posted a message in 1991 announcing the launch of Linux &#8211; which was &#8220;just a hobby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u00a0Linux &#8220;won&#8217;t be big and professional like gnu&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Linux powers large portions of the Internet&#8217;s infrastructure, including\u00a0data centres, websites, stock exchanges, smartphone operating systems, and supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>Linux also runs as an operating system on many desktop and laptop PCs across the world.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, the\u00a025th anniversary version of the Linux Kernel Development Report has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/announcements\/linux-foundation-releases-development-report-highlighting-contributions-to-linux\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>been released<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Linux<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/176309-linux-kernel-4-6-reaches-end-of-life.html\">Linux kernel 4.6 reaches end of life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175154-linux-risk-in-windows-10-exposed.html\">Linux risk in Windows 10 exposed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux operating system kernel turns 25 years old on 25 August 2016, with the project having grown immensely over the past two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1799],"class_list":["post-176821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176835,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176821\/revisions\/176835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}