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G. Vicente

@GilVicente

Software Developer/IT Architect, MBA-Big Data & Analytics on @FGV_EAESP Scientist/Engineer - Computer Scientist on @puc_sp. I love #Linux, #OpenSource, #Coding

Katılım Eylül 2009
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TechPowerUp@TechPowerUp·
NVIDIA Reflex 2 and AMD Anti-Lag 2 Can Now Run on Any GPU Under Linux tpu.me/abcb
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Phoronix@phoronix·
SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Awesome win for those wanting to use the Steam Controller without Steam client! phoronix.com/news/SDL-Steam…
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It's FOSS
It's FOSS@Itsfoss·
Relatable, Arch users? 🤣
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Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
You can’t buy Linux. It’s free. Always has been. So IBM did the next best thing: it spent $34 billion buying Red Hat, a company whose entire business is selling tech support for this free software. Largest software acquisition in history. For support contracts on something anyone can download for $0. The “side project” story, while true, is maybe 5% of what actually happened since. Linux itself is managed by a nonprofit, the Linux Foundation. That nonprofit pulled in $311 million last year. Only $8.4 million of that (2.6%) actually went to Linux itself. The rest of the funds support ~1,500 other open source projects, events, and training. Every Fortune 100 tech company is a paying member. And here’s who actually builds this “free” software now: 84% of the code changes to Linux in 2025 come from developers on corporate payroll. Intel is the biggest contributor. Google is second. Huawei, Oracle, AMD, and Meta all have engineers writing Linux code full-time. Over 1,780 companies pay people to work on it. The solo genius in a dorm room stopped being the real story around 1998. The wildest part: over 65% of Microsoft’s cloud computers run Linux. Microsoft, the company whose former CEO once called Linux “a cancer,” now runs more Linux than Windows on its own servers. Amazon and Google’s clouds are even higher, both above 90%. A 2024 Harvard Business School study attempted to calculate how much companies would spend if all free, open-source software vanished tomorrow. The answer: $8.8 trillion more per year. 3.5x what they currently spend. And that number didn’t even include operating systems like Linux. Linus Torvalds still personally approves every major code change. He makes about $1.5 million a year. He also built Git, the tool that powers GitHub (which Microsoft bought for $7.5 billion). Two pieces of software the entire tech industry runs on, same guy. Linux started as 10,239 lines of code. It’s now over 40 million. Every one of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers runs it. 96% of the top million websites sit on it. Every Android phone has Linux inside it. That’s roughly 3 billion devices in people’s pockets. It’s the largest collaborative engineering project in human history, free to use, funded by the same corporations it was supposed to replace.
Sahil@sahill_og

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI. - He didn't have a co-founder. - No VC funding. No office. - No team. - Just a personal project he posted to a mailing list: "I'm doing a free OS." 33 years later, it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station. The most important software in history started as someone's side project. Absolute legend.

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NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux tpu.me/mdmk
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TRÄW🤟@thatstraw·
Use Linux. The distro is just preference.
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Gergely Orosz
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz·
Can’t see any reason for sw engineers to choose Windows with this weird direction they are doubling down on So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA… their OS doesn’t look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose Mac or Linux it is for devs
Pavan Davuluri@pavandavuluri

Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere. Join us at #MSIgnite to see how frontier firms are transforming with Windows and what’s next for the platform. We can’t wait to show you! ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions…

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Phoronix@phoronix·
Linux 6.19 Released With Better Support For Older AMD GPUs, DRM Color Pipeline API Linux 6.19 is now officially released! phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1…
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