Speaker 1: Think about the devices you interact with every single day,
Speaker 1: right your Android phone, that smartwatch on your wrist, or
Speaker 1: like the Wi Fi router sitting quietly in the corner
Speaker 1: of your living room, or even the servers hosting the
Speaker 1: website you literally just visited. What if I told you
Speaker 1: that the invisible engine powering almost all of them is
Speaker 1: the exact same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of mind blowing when you really look
Speaker 2: at the scale of it.
Speaker 1: It really is, and even wilder. Between like one third
Speaker 1: and two thirds of all websites on the entire Internet,
Speaker 1: plus the absolute fastest supercomputers on the planet. They all
Speaker 1: run on an operating system that started out as a
Speaker 1: hobby project, right, just one guy, Yeah, just Linus Torvalds
Speaker 1: coding in his bedroom in Finland in what nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: One, nineteen ninety one exactly. It is an incredible origin story.
Speaker 2: I mean, going from a single student's hobby to literally
Speaker 2: the foundational infrastructure of the modern digital world. Right, and
Speaker 2: the system, of course is Linux. Understanding why it works
Speaker 2: and you know why it's everywhere is just essential for
Speaker 2: anyone navigating today's technology landscape.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so welcome to this custom tailored deep dive into
Speaker 1: Linux for beginners, whether you are, you know, prepping for
Speaker 1: a high stakes IT meeting, or maybe looking to revive
Speaker 1: that dusty old laptop in your closet, or you're just
Speaker 1: wildly curious about the invisible engine of the Internet. Our
Speaker 1: mission today is to demystify this operating system. This is
Speaker 1: your shortcut to being well informed. So, okay, let's unpack
Speaker 1: this because the sheer footprint of Linux is massive, but
Speaker 1: for a lot of people listening, an operating system is
Speaker 1: really just the screen you click on to open a web.
Speaker 2: Browser, right, yeah, the visual part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what actually makes Linux fundamentally different from the
Speaker 1: commercial software we're also used to?
Speaker 2: Well, to really grasp that, we need to take one
Speaker 2: step back and look at what an operating system is
Speaker 2: actually doing under the hood. Okay, at its core, and
Speaker 2: OS is the bridge between your physical.
Speaker 1: Hardware, the CPU and memory.
Speaker 2: Exactly, your CPU, your memory, the hard drive, bridging that
Speaker 2: with the software applications you want to run. Because without it,
Speaker 2: every single app you use would have to be written
Speaker 2: with like thousands of lines of custom code just to
Speaker 2: know how to save a text file to your specific
Speaker 2: brand of hard drive.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So the OS handles all of that heavy lifting,
Speaker 1: so the apps don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, precisely. Now, historically the gold standard for heavy duty
Speaker 2: enterprise computing was an OS called Unix. But U and
Speaker 2: is was and still is completely proprietary, and it is
Speaker 2: incredibly expensive.
Speaker 1: Right. I read that top tier U ANDIX servers can
Speaker 1: literally cost upwards of five hundred thousand dollars, which is
Speaker 1: just insane. It was assive, and that usually comes with
Speaker 1: mandatory vendor support contracts too, right, so it's essentially a
Speaker 1: walled garden for massive corporations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a huge corporate expense lockdown by vendors.
Speaker 2: But Linux was built with a completely different philosophy. It
Speaker 2: was designed to be a free, open source alternative. So
Speaker 2: instead of the core architecture being locked behind a corporate vault,
Speaker 2: its source code is open for absolutely anyone to see,
Speaker 2: modify and.
Speaker 1: Improve, meaning you have thousands of developers globally updating it constantly, exactly.
Speaker 2: But the real secret to its legendary stability, I mean
Speaker 2: the reasonable limit server can run for years, sometimes decades,
Speaker 2: without ever needing to be rebooted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kid's without a reboot?
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, it happens It comes down to its brilliant
Speaker 2: systems architecture, specifically how it completely separates what is called
Speaker 2: kernel space from user space.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, I want to make sure I'm getting the
Speaker 1: mechanics of this right. So the kernel is the absolute
Speaker 1: core of the OS. It manages the CPU, the memory,
Speaker 1: and what's called the process scheduler. But user space is
Speaker 1: where our everyday apps run.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Wait, so is the kernel basically like a VIP bouncer
Speaker 1: at a club and the apps are the guests in
Speaker 1: user space partying having a good time. But if one
Speaker 1: gets completely out of hand, the bouncer ensures they are
Speaker 1: isolated so they don't destroy the entire building.
Speaker 2: That is a great way to look at it. It
Speaker 2: acts like a bouncer, yes, but even better, imagine that
Speaker 2: bouncer puts every single guest in their own soundproof VIP room.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting right.
Speaker 2: The kernel achieves this through a mechanism called memory mapping.
Speaker 2: It tricks every single application into thinking it is the
Speaker 2: only app running on the entire computer.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if someone in one of those VIP rooms
Speaker 1: starts breaking things, say your web browser.
Speaker 2: Crashes, nobody else in the club even notices the crash.
Speaker 2: Happens in total isolation. That makes so much sense, because
Speaker 2: in a poorly designed operating system, a crashing application can
Speaker 2: accidentally overwrite critical system memory and bring the whole machine
Speaker 2: crashing down. You know, you get a blue screen of death,
Speaker 2: that total free You've all been there, right, But in Linux,
Speaker 2: the kernel remains completely untouched, keeping the system rock solid.
Speaker 2: And what's fascinating here is how the kernel manages all
Speaker 2: these isolated guests using that process scheduler you.
Speaker 1: Mentioned, because it acts as the ultimate manager, right exactly.
Speaker 2: The process scheduler is obsessed with absolute fairness. Since the
Speaker 2: CPU is the single most valuable resource in your computer.
Speaker 2: The scheduler is constantly pausing and restarting processes in fractions
Speaker 2: of a millisecond.
Speaker 1: So no single app can hog the entire system.
Speaker 2: Precisely, it assigns very specific states to every process. An
Speaker 2: app might be running, or it might be waiting because
Speaker 2: it needs to fetch data from the hard drive. It
Speaker 2: could be stopped. And then there's the zombie process.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have to admit seeing the term zombie process
Speaker 1: in computer science is amazing. It sounds like something straight
Speaker 1: out of a horror movie.
Speaker 2: It's a highly accurate name. Actually, a zombie process is
Speaker 2: essentially a dormant process. The application is finished excating its code,
Speaker 2: it's done its job, but it still has a data
Speaker 2: structure hanging around in the system's.
Speaker 1: Memory, so it's dead. But the system hasn't fully cleaned
Speaker 1: up its remains yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And the kernel is constantly managing these states
Speaker 2: in the background, sweeping away the zombies, keeping the CPU
Speaker 2: perfectly balanced, which is how it keeps everything running so
Speaker 2: efficiently without you ever noticing.
Speaker 1: It's just wild to realize that this incredibly secure, perfectly
Speaker 1: balanced foundation is just out there for the taking, which
Speaker 1: brings up a really practical question for you listening. If
Speaker 1: it's completely free, how do you actually get it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you don't just go to a big box tech
Speaker 1: store and buy a shrink wrapped box that says Linux.
Speaker 1: That leads us into this entirely unique world of what
Speaker 1: are called distributions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is where beginners often get tripped up,
Speaker 2: because Linux isn't just one single product you download. Technically speaking,
Speaker 2: Linux is just the kernel that VIP bouncer we talked about.
Speaker 2: Oh right, But a bouncer in an empty concrete building
Speaker 2: isn't very useful to a regular person.
Speaker 1: No, you need the music, the drains, the lights exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. In computer terms, you need a desktop environment, file managers,
Speaker 2: web browsers, visual installation tools. When developers package the raw
Speaker 2: Linux kernel together with all that software to make a complete,
Speaker 2: usable system, it is called the Linux distribution or a distro.
Speaker 1: And I was looking into how many of these distributions exist,
Speaker 1: and the number absolutely blew my mind. There are over
Speaker 1: three hundred actively maintained distros out there right now.
Speaker 2: It's a lot to take in.
Speaker 1: It really is. And they generally split into community distributions,
Speaker 1: which are free and maintained by volunteers, and enterprise distributions,
Speaker 1: which companies pay for to get official support. But for beginners,
Speaker 1: the consensus seems to highly recommend something like a Boontu,
Speaker 1: which is backed by a company called Canonical and is
Speaker 1: highly polished. Or even better, Linux Mint Mint is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mint is actually built on top of a Berncho's foundation,
Speaker 1: but it's specifically designed to feel incredibly similar to Windows
Speaker 1: using traditional desktop environments called Cinnamon and mate E.
Speaker 2: Those are excellent starting points for anyone making the jump.
Speaker 2: They really hold your hand through the setup and all
Speaker 2: the hardware drivers usually work right out of the box,
Speaker 2: But then on the exact opposite end of the spectrum,
Speaker 2: you have specialized distros for absolute experts. Take Arch Linux
Speaker 2: for example, Oh boy, yeah, it is designed for hardcore
Speaker 2: users who literally want to build their operating system piece
Speaker 2: by piece from the ground up, choosing exactly which audio
Speaker 2: server or networking tool they want.
Speaker 1: That sounds intense.
Speaker 2: Or Slackwaar, which is the oldest surviving distro, dating all
Speaker 2: the way back to nineteen ninety three. It has almost
Speaker 2: no visual setup whatsoever. It relies entirely on text files
Speaker 2: and command line scripts to get running.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have to play the skeptic here for you listening,
Speaker 1: because if I am just a regular user trying to
Speaker 1: get my work done, having three hundred different options sounds
Speaker 1: like an absolute nightmare of information overload.
Speaker 2: Oh totally.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't the Linux community just pool all of their
Speaker 1: brilliant collective resources into one massive super version to just
Speaker 1: completely crush Windows and macops.
Speaker 2: That is a very common reaction, But if we connect
Speaker 2: this to the bigger picture, that fragmentation is actually Linux's
Speaker 2: greatest superpower. Really, how so think about it this way.
Speaker 2: An enterprise distro like red hat or seoc is driven
Speaker 2: entirely by what massive corporate clients need for their server farms,
Speaker 2: maximum security, long term stability. But community distros are driven
Speaker 2: by what individual developers and users are passionate about. Ah,
Speaker 2: Because there isn't just one monolithic version, a user can
Speaker 2: find a distro perfectly tailored to their exact needs. You
Speaker 2: can install a visually stunning heavy desktop distro on your
Speaker 2: brand new gaming rig or you can install a tiny,
Speaker 2: stripped down embedded OS on a fifteen year old laptop
Speaker 2: and make it run like it's brand new. You simply
Speaker 2: cannot do that if you only have a one size
Speaker 2: fits all product designed by a single corporation.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes perfect sense. It's about ultimate choice and flexibility.
Speaker 1: So let's say you are listening to this and you've
Speaker 1: picked your ideal flavor, let's say Linux Mint, because you
Speaker 1: like that familiar Windows feel. How do you actually try
Speaker 1: it out? Because the idea of wiping your current Mac
Speaker 1: or Windows machine, formatting the hard drive, and risking all
Speaker 1: your photos and documents just to test a new OS
Speaker 1: is terrifying.
Speaker 2: Oh completely, and it is completely unnecessary to take that risk.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the barrier to entry has never been lower. You
Speaker 2: don't need a computer science degree to test drive Linux,
Speaker 2: and you certainly don't need to risk your current setup.
Speaker 2: There are two incredibly safe, risk free methods that isolate
Speaker 2: the experiment from your daily files. The first is using
Speaker 2: a virtual machine or VM.
Speaker 1: Using software like Oracles Virtual Box. Right exactly, Here's where
Speaker 1: it gets really interesting. So a virtual machine is essentially
Speaker 1: an inception style computer within a computer. How does that
Speaker 1: actually work without messing up my main computer?
Speaker 2: Think of a virtual machine like renting out a small
Speaker 2: apartment inside your existing house. Okay, you build fake digital walls.
Speaker 2: You allocate a specific amount of electricity, which is your CPU,
Speaker 2: and a specific amount of closet space, which is a
Speaker 2: file on your hard drive. The tenant, which is the
Speaker 2: Linux operating system, has absolutely no idea it is inside
Speaker 2: a bigger house.
Speaker 1: It thinks it has its own physical hardware.
Speaker 2: Right. It runs in a regular window on your Windows
Speaker 2: or Mac desktop, just like your web browser or your
Speaker 2: email client.
Speaker 1: So it's completely cordened off. If my Linux VM accidentally
Speaker 1: downloads a virus or I completely break the system trying
Speaker 1: out some advanced settings, is my main host computer totally safe?
Speaker 2: One safe the VM acts as a self contained compartment.
Speaker 2: In fact, this isolation is exactly why professional software developers
Speaker 2: rely on vms to safely test new, potentially unstable code.
Speaker 1: Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if the VM crashes or gets corrupted, you don't
Speaker 2: call it. You just delete that single virtual hard drive
Speaker 2: file and spin up a brand new, pristine Linux system
Speaker 2: in minutes.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. And the second method for testing it
Speaker 1: is the live CD, or, more accurately, today, the live
Speaker 1: USB method.
Speaker 2: Right. USB's are the standard. Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can literally download the OS, put it on
Speaker 1: a thumb drive, plug it in, and boot your computer
Speaker 1: directly from the USB without it ever touching your internal
Speaker 1: hard drive. The crucial detail here, though, is setting up
Speaker 1: what's called persistent storage on that USB. Very important point
Speaker 1: because if you don't allocate a few hundred megabytes for persistence,
Speaker 1: any file you save or setting you change while testing
Speaker 1: will just vanish the second you restart the computer.
Speaker 2: Right that is a vital tip. Yea, Without persistent storage,
Speaker 2: a live USB acts like a blank slate every single
Speaker 2: time you turn it on. And it's worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: even Mac users can get in on this hardware revival.
Speaker 1: Oh really, even with older Max.
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. If you have an older Mac that Apple
Speaker 2: has deemed obsolete and no longer supports with security updates,
Speaker 2: you don't have to throw it away.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: You can use a boot manager tool called r find.
Speaker 2: Think of a boot manager as a traffic cop that
Speaker 2: appears the moment you turn on your computer asking if
Speaker 2: you want to take the road to mac OS or
Speaker 2: the road to Linux. You can actually dual boot both
Speaker 2: on the same machine. Wow. Just be sure to use
Speaker 2: a tool like carbon Copy cloner to back up your
Speaker 2: mac OS recovery partition first, just in case you ever
Speaker 2: want to revert the whole process.
Speaker 1: Smart always back up. Okay, so you've safely booted up
Speaker 1: your new Linux Mint system. Your click around the visual
Speaker 1: interface feels great, but eventually you are going to encounter
Speaker 1: the one thing that strikes fear into the heart of
Speaker 1: every beginner.
Speaker 2: I know exactly what you're going to say.
Speaker 1: The black screen with the blinking text the command line.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, the shell. It can look intividating, like you
Speaker 2: are suddenly hacking into a mainframe in a nineteen nineties
Speaker 2: movie exactly, But the shell is not something to be feared.
Speaker 2: It is actually a massive, incredibly powerful shortcut for getting
Speaker 2: things done well.
Speaker 1: The default on most systems is called the BASH shell,
Speaker 1: which stands for born Again Shell, which is a genuinely
Speaker 1: great piece of tech humor. It really is, and a
Speaker 1: shell is just the program that interprets the plain text
Speaker 1: you type and translates it into direct instructions for the
Speaker 1: operating system. But there are a few magic shortcuts built
Speaker 1: into the shell that make it so much less tedious
Speaker 1: than it looks.
Speaker 2: Those shortcuts are absolute life savers. The most important one
Speaker 2: to learn immediately is the tab.
Speaker 1: Key Oh, the auto complete.
Speaker 2: Right Linux file all names and directories can be incredibly long.
Speaker 2: Instead of typing it all out perfectly and risking a typo,
Speaker 2: you type the first two or three letters and hit tab.
Speaker 2: The shell instantly auto completes the rest of the file
Speaker 2: or program name for you.
Speaker 1: That saves so much time.
Speaker 2: And if you want to repeat a complex command you
Speaker 2: type ten minutes ago, you don't type it out again.
Speaker 2: You just press the up arrow to cycle through your
Speaker 2: command history, or press ctrl dash R to search your
Speaker 2: history for a specific keyword. It makes navigating text incredibly fast,
Speaker 2: and there is.
Speaker 1: Also this wild feature called the virtual terminal. By pressing
Speaker 1: ceatrol ALT and the F one. Through FA keys, you
Speaker 1: can instantly switch between multiple full screen text only environments
Speaker 1: and your graphical desktop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like having eight different monitors hidden behind your screen,
Speaker 2: completely separated from each other.
Speaker 1: That's wild. And once you are in that command line,
Speaker 1: there are a few essential commands that give you godlike
Speaker 1: power over the machine, like pseudo, which basically acts as
Speaker 1: a master key, telling the system to execute this command
Speaker 1: with the absolute unquestioned power of the super user exactly,
Speaker 1: or gp, which searches text cryptically, and kill, which is
Speaker 1: exactly what you use to terminate those stubborn zombie processes
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier. Or kill all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kill All's very handy.
Speaker 1: But okay, I have to be completely honest with you.
Speaker 1: In a whirl of high resolution touch screens, voice assistants,
Speaker 1: and seamless drag and drop interfaces, isn't typing out something
Speaker 1: cryptic like TARFISFF download dot tr just a massive step
Speaker 1: backward in time? Why do experts still prefer staring at
Speaker 1: a wall of text?
Speaker 2: It's a very fair question. Yeah, But if we connect
Speaker 2: this to the bigger picture, using a graphical user interface
Speaker 2: a GI is like ordering a meal off a restaurant menu. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can only choose what the developers specifically designed for
Speaker 2: you to click on. Oh, I see if the button
Speaker 2: doesn't exist, you simply can't do it. The command line,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, is like being allowed into the kitchen.
Speaker 2: You have access to the raw ingredients.
Speaker 1: The menu versus the kitchen. I love that analogy.
Speaker 2: It changes Everything's take that rep command you mentioned. Imagine
Speaker 2: you have a folder with ten thousand silver log files
Speaker 2: and you need to find the one file containing a
Speaker 2: specific error code that sounds like a nightmare. In Windows,
Speaker 2: you would click the search bar, wait twenty minutes for
Speaker 2: the system to index everything, and hope it doesn't freeze.
Speaker 2: In the Linux kitchen, you type rep the error code
Speaker 2: and the folder name. Linux scans all ten thousand files
Speaker 2: and spits out the exact line of text in milliseconds.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: You can combine command line tools in infinite ways to
Speaker 2: automate incredibly complex tasks instantly. You aren't limited by the
Speaker 2: developers imagination.
Speaker 1: You're only limited by your own Okay, so using the
Speaker 1: command line gives you ultimate instant control over your local files,
Speaker 1: but an operating system in a vacuum isn't very useful today.
Speaker 1: How well does this DIY kitchen environment connect to the broader,
Speaker 1: highly commercialized Internet Very well? Actually, And more importantly, can
Speaker 1: this free operating system actually replace your daily, expensive workflow?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Can. The networking stack on Linux is phenomenal, which
Speaker 2: is exactly why it runs the vast majority of the
Speaker 2: Internet servers. It handled the TCPIP layers seamlessly instead of
Speaker 2: drowning you and jargon. Think of how Linux handles your
Speaker 2: computer's ports. Okay, you can think of ports as specific
Speaker 2: doors that data uses to enter and exit your machine.
Speaker 2: Linux strictly controls these doors. For instance, door number eighty
Speaker 2: is specifically reserved for web browsing traffic like HTTP traffic.
Speaker 2: Right if data tries to come in through the wrong door,
Speaker 2: Linux immediately blocks it. It gives you raw powerful access
Speaker 2: to diagnostics like the pin command to test connections. But
Speaker 2: for the everyday user, the real revelation isn't the networking protocol,
Speaker 2: it's the software ecosystem available to replace all those proprietary
Speaker 2: apps you're used to paying for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was skeptical about giving up my everyday apps,
Speaker 1: but it looks like the open source community has actually
Speaker 1: built incredible alternatives for almost everything they really have. Instead
Speaker 1: of paying a massive yearly subscription for Microsoft Office, you
Speaker 1: use LibreOffice. It is totally free, full featured, and highly
Speaker 1: compatible with your standard docks files, so you can still
Speaker 1: send resumes to people on Windows exactly. And instead of
Speaker 1: using a browser like Edge or Explorer that tracks your
Speaker 1: every move, you can use Brave or Chromium. Brave is
Speaker 1: privacy focused, aggressively blocks ads and trackers, and instead of
Speaker 1: paying with your data, you can actually opt in to
Speaker 1: privacy respecting ads and get rewarded with something called a
Speaker 1: basic Attention token.
Speaker 2: And it extends to creative work too.
Speaker 1: Right, if you are doing design work, instead of dropping
Speaker 1: serious cash on a Photoshop license, there is Photopia, which
Speaker 1: is entirely browser based and miraculously opens native Photoshop PSD files,
Speaker 1: or you can use Pixeler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, photop is amazing. It is.
Speaker 1: And for video editing you have incredibly robust open source
Speaker 1: options like shotcut or pa TV. So what does this
Speaker 1: all mean for you listening today? If I completely switch
Speaker 1: my daily workflow to LibreOffice and Photopa, am I basically
Speaker 1: getting a luxury car for the price of a bicycle?
Speaker 1: Or because it's completely free. Am I going to be
Speaker 1: missing the steering wheel?
Speaker 2: I can assure you the steering wheel is fully intact
Speaker 2: and the engine is probably more reliable than what you're
Speaker 2: used to.
Speaker 1: That's a relief.
Speaker 2: Well, there's always a slight learning curve when adapting to
Speaker 2: any new visual interface. You have to remember that these
Speaker 2: open source tools are not amateur weekend projects. They have
Speaker 2: been rigorously refined by thousands of passionate developers over decades.
Speaker 2: You're getting ninety to one hundred percent of the functionality
Speaker 2: of expensive commercial software entirely for.
Speaker 1: Free and without the tracking.
Speaker 2: Crucially, yes, you're doing it in an ecosystem that isn't
Speaker 2: fundamentally designed to harvest your personal data to feed advertising algorithms.
Speaker 1: That is the real value proposition right there. So to
Speaker 1: bring it all together, going from a college hobby project
Speaker 1: to running the world's most powerful supercomputers wasn't an accident, ye,
Speaker 1: not at all. It was the result of combining an
Speaker 1: uncrashable kernel where every app is isolated in its own
Speaker 1: soundproof room with ultimate user freedom, whether it's finding the
Speaker 1: perfect distribution out of hundreds of choices, safely testing it
Speaker 1: in a virtual apartment on your hard drive or stepping
Speaker 1: into the command line kitchen to manipulate thousands of files
Speaker 1: in milliseconds. Linux puts the user completely in charge.
Speaker 2: And the takeaway here is that Linux isn't just for
Speaker 2: deeks anymore. It is a highly accessible, incredibly polished tool
Speaker 2: that fundamentally respect your privacy. It shifts the entire dynamic
Speaker 2: from renting your software from massive corporations to giving you total,
Speaker 2: uncompromising ownership of your computing experience.
Speaker 1: Total ownership. We started this deep dive talking about the
Speaker 1: expectation of precision, like looking at an X ray of
Speaker 1: an invisible engine that runs our world. And it turns
Speaker 1: out when you look closely at that engine, you don't
Speaker 1: find a trillion dollar corporation holding it together. You find
Speaker 1: a community.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, really, and it raises important question and it
Speaker 2: is a fascinating final thought to ponder. The Linux oper
Speaker 2: rating system is living proof that thousands of unpaid, passionate
Speaker 2: volunteers from every corner of the globe can successfully collaborate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've built an infrastructure so flawless, so secure that it
Speaker 2: runs the world's most critical supercomputers, space stations, and global
Speaker 2: stock exchanges better than half a million dollar proprietary systems,
Speaker 2: ever could It makes.
Speaker 1: You wonder, if this decentralized, open source model of human
Speaker 1: collaboration can completely conquer the incredibly complex world of software,
Speaker 1: what other massive, real world global industries could be completely
Speaker 1: revolutionized by it next.
Speaker 2: That's the million dollar question.
Speaker 1: It really is something to think about the next time
Speaker 1: you tap your phone screen. Thanks for joining us on
Speaker 1: this deep dive.