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sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours ago

35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 hours ago
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  • vrek@programming.dev
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    Per a post on Mastodon, today is also the 35th anniversary of the founding of Ukraine…

    Not making a political statement but crazy that both of these happened on same day.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    I won’t promise I’ll implement them :-)

    And he has stuck to his guns on that.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    Man, it’s such a shame it only works on that one, outdated kind of disk

    • walden@wetshav.ing
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      Bummer it’s not big and professional like Gnu, either.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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    Mind you, there was no stackoverflow back then, so he most likely learned all that shit reading hard papers.

    • sanitation@lemmy.todayOP
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      Well look at this rich kid who had access to relevant printed books.
      Before internet I had nothing

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    What an idiot. Linux became huge.

    • walden@wetshav.ing
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      Total dolt!

    • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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      He didn’t have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

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        Someone smart enough to make Linux so huge should have been smart enough to know that.

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    I like how it has the sad face at the end, like: this won’t amount to much…sorry to disappoint you guys.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      NOT protable :-(

      • dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz
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        Code for against Windows (table was the code word)

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    Damn, i don’t have an AT disk, if i did i would try it out

    Guess i’ll have to stick to Linux 😞

    • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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      You could also try that new Microsoft thing. Bob, I think.

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    I sort of remember that announcement. I ran to the university library to read about minix, but I don’t think I found any books.

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