World Domination. What Next?

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Linux starts as two floppy disks 24 years ago and now runs most shipped devices, the majority of the top 1 million public web servers and the top 500 supercomputers, with 100% presence on Mars probes mentioned anecdotally. Success credits include fixing kernel memory management in 2.4, NFS work and live kernel patching, broad contribution reuse across distros, and reliance on GPL enforces sharing and software-defined infrastructure projects (virtual compute, network, storage like OpenStack) to scale; collaboration and governance remain decisive.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:17This is how we first met
3. 2:14Big Web Servers Run Linux
4. 2:54You must be nuts
5. 7:31It's an Ongoing Revolution
6. 8:54This Wave goes by Mary Names
7. 12:45Being Successful in 2001

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