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This is one of the most underappreciated features of Unix's interoperability. Back in college, I carried around a wimpy tablet PC running Linux, but "ran" most
by don-code 5y ago
This is one of the most underappreciated features of Unix's interoperability. Back in college, I carried around a wimpy tablet PC running Linux, but "ran" most of my applications on some random Solaris box in a lab.
This was invaluable to me, because otherwise I'd have had to fork out money I didn't have for MATLAB and the like - or sit in the lab all day, like everyone else.
- rbanffy 5y agoWhen I was working at a portal, we had piles of discarded PPC macs. I installed Apple’s MkLinux on one and used it as my second workstation. Months later, after I left, I visited the floor as a consultant and pretty much every engineer and sysadmin had one on their desks.