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Being able to install a UNIX-type operating system on my personal computer, one that was free, was a life-changing experience for me. At the time there were pr
by astrodust 10y ago
Being able to install a UNIX-type operating system on my personal computer, one that was free, was a life-changing experience for me.
At the time there were prohibitively expensive UNIX operating systems on the market, many of which required even more expensive proprietary hardware to run on, and then you'd have to fork out even more money for a compiler.
An enormous thanks to Linus and the GNU team for changing all of that and making this accessible to pretty much anyone crazy enough to try and install it on their computer.
- jethro_tell 10y agoYou wonder what the innovation curve looks like when people are interested then can't afford the 20k per year for unix4. Someone probably would have gotten there (GUN/hurd is only 20 years away, probably because of many people working on linux instead). A lot of the innovation in tech is a result of tinkering or being able to run on a low cost platform to make the margins pencil out. This wasn't much of an option under the commercial OSs that existed before Linus started.