In this week’s edition of TLWIR, I will take a look at the continuing twentieth anniversary celebration of our beloved GNU/Linux operating system. I will also look at Microsoft’s olive branch extended to the Linux community. In yet another surprising turn of events, the U.S. Department of Defense has released its own GNU/Linux distribution. Finally, I will look at the increasing “biodiversity” in the free software environment, and how Linux and other free operating systems benefit from this diversity.