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From: Morten Reistad on 1 Apr 2010 22:52 In article <IU.D20100320.T032738.P15994.Q0(a)J.de.Boyne.Pollard.localhost>, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote: >> >>>>>> >>>>>> This thread has been a real eye-opener for me. Having been a Linux >>>>>> user for decades [...] >>>>>> >>>>> Decades? As in more than one? <Raises Eyebrow/>. >>>>> >>>> <goes to check> >>>> >>>> OK, I exaggerated slightly. I started using Linux for >>>> mission-critical tasks around the beginning of 2000, so it's >>>> probably been slightly over one decade. [...] >>>> >>> I know one person who's coming up on two decades: he's been using it >>> since Linux 0.92 in the early 1990s. That is not so unusual in this newsgroup. 0.96 was the first one I installed, in one of the holidays in May 1992. Even got the boot diskettes signed. That was (one of?) the first versions where you didn't have to bootstrap through minix. The machine is nicely mothballed. Now has 1.0.9; the last version that supported a non-elf kernel. I intend to fire it up and have it on the net for it's 20th anniversary. -- mrr
From: Joe Pfeiffer on 2 Apr 2010 01:24
Morten Reistad <first(a)last.name> writes: > > I intend to fire it up and have it on the net for it's 20th > anniversary. I wanna log on when you do it! -- As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. (Benjamin Franklin) |