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For perspective: The GNU toolkit (gcc and coreutils at least) has been continuously developed for over thirty years of unbroken project history. Linux itself,
by FeepingCreature 5y ago
For perspective:
The GNU toolkit (gcc and coreutils at least) has been continuously developed for over thirty years of unbroken project history. Linux itself, if you are willing to do a bit of repository surgery[1], has a continuous commit history dating back to 1991. The X Window System was created in 1984, and you can still run GUI applications from that period[2] on a modern system. Even KDE is over twenty years old.
[1] https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux
[2] http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2013/12/a-testament-to-x11-backwards.html http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2013/12/a-testament-to-x11...
- simonh 5y agoAll of which are much more like layers of sedimentary rock, unknown and invisible to most people, than they are like cathedrals admired by all.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoCoreutils are starting to get competitors rewritten in Rust, though.
- pjmlp 5y agoAnd I see 20 year olds downgrading their Ryzen powered workstation to the same experience I was having putting DG/UX xterm sessions on IBM X Windows terminals in 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal One wonders why they have bothered to pay for such hardware in first place. Then I remember about Electron and Docker.