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Linux is 34 years old today
- cranberryturkey 1y agoDamn I feel old. I was around 22 when I started using it, now I'm 50
- pjmlp 1y agoSame here, also Slackware 2.0?
- iberator 1y ago2.0, 3.x - my favourite versions... I could run Linux on 2MB of ram at 386SX 16mhz, thanks to a.out format of binaries instead of ELF. It was really really great. Then everything went downhill with glibc/eglibc split and mandatory ELF binary format. [same stuff could no longer boot at 2MB of RAM]. Although, I run it around 1999/2000 :P [then Slackware 7.1, 8.1, and NetBSD 1.6.1]. Shitty times but great software and hardware. [it was fun to try boot/install system at 4MB of ram :) ] I once installed 7.1 at a modern machine and I was able to compile the default kernel in like 14 seconds instead of 45 minutes with 486DX2.
- saltcured 1y agoSimilar feelings but I'm slightly older and started a bit earlier. I had my first Linux exposure in late 1992 or early 1993 with the SLS bootable floppy distribution. I started putting it to use almost immediately to do some of my CS coursework from my bedroom instead of always going to the terminal rooms on campus. I think I started using Slackware later in 1993 when I was ready to go from floppy to HDD installation. I found a computer lab, accessible to undergraduates, where I could FTP the floppy images over the campus network and write them to floppy. It took multiple trips but was much faster than trying to do it via a dial-up SLIP connection.
- LeFantome 1y agoLiterally identical story here. The accessible computer lab for me was the Sun lab in the engineering building.
- john_the_writer 1y agoJust a few more years and it's time will be up :D
- chistev 1y agoSoftware Development, like Hip Hop music, is still young.
- hulitu 1y agoand fat. /s
- miohtama 1y agoIt's almost time for the year of Linux desktop
- pjmlp 1y agoIt is currently at 5%, so one can easily do the math how many years remain for total domination.