35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!

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southsamurai 108 points 2 months ago

Man, it's such a shame it only works on that one, outdated kind of disk

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walden 67 points 2 months ago

Bummer it's not big and professional like Gnu, either.

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BCsven 59 points 2 months ago

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

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frongt 54 points 2 months ago

NOT protable :-(

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dzsimbo 5 points 2 months ago

Code for against Windows (table was the code word)

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ilinamorato 42 points 2 months ago

I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

And he has stuck to his guns on that.

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Zachariah 37 points 2 months ago

What an idiot. Linux became huge.

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walden 20 points 2 months ago

Total dolt!

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reddit_sux 25 points 2 months ago

I would say a git.

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A_norny_mousse 1 point 2 months ago

🤔 there's a short and pregnant term that hasn't been used for Linux software yet

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Zedstrian 6 points 2 months ago

He didn't have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.

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inari 20 points 2 months ago

Thatsthejoke.jpg

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Zachariah 14 points 2 months ago

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

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DonutsRMeh 33 points 2 months ago

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

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sanitation 7 points 2 months ago

Well look at this rich kid who had access to relevant printed books.
Before internet I had nothing

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DonutsRMeh 7 points 2 months ago

I didn't even have power in my house back in 1991. Walked 5(both ways combined) miles to school every single day. Lmao.

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frongt 14 points 2 months ago

I literally used to walk uphill, both ways, in the snow.

Well, in winter anyway. To the bus stop. Because I lived on one side of a hill and the bus stop was on the other.

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DonutsRMeh 1 point 2 months ago

Man, we really had it rough back then. God damn.

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addie 27 points 2 months ago

If you haven't read it, Torvalds' book is pretty interesting. He's a fairly blunt writer of prose - alas, no Hemingway - but has a good voice and his slightly-cynical Finnish humour comes through clearly. Doesn't have the massive ego that you might have expected, either - he knows he's one of the planet's biggest nerds.

Essentially, his somewhat geeky summer project was to implement the POSIX parts of Minix as a learning exercise, and basically locked himself in his room till he'd done it. Photocopied the spec sheet, and was 'ticking off' all the calls he'd got working. He was dual-booting with Minix for a while, which is why the filesystem layout is the same, but at one point managed to break his Minix boot, and Linux had to become self-hosting.

Fair play to him - took him a few months to produce the OS kernel that the whole GNU team couldn't manage in a decade. Perfect is the enemy of good. Open-sourcing 'something that works' was all that was needed for everyone else to add in all the bits they needed as well, and the rest is history.

https://goodreads.com/...

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katze 6 points 2 months ago

I can second that. The book is definitely entertaining to read.

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vrek 26 points 2 months ago

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.

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3abas 13 points 2 months ago

That was yesterday...

Today, 35 years ago, Belarus declared independence.

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vrek 0 points 2 months ago

Damn, trusted Mastodon, should of confirmed with other sources...

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SlurpingPus 5 points 2 months ago

should of

Please stop.

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Zachariah 1 point 2 months ago

should’ve

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SlurpingPus 4 points 2 months ago

Ukraine existed as People's Republic and then a republic within the USSR since 1917, with some border changes particularly after WW2. And of course, it was Zaporozhian Sich / Cossack Hetmanate before that.

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SpaceCowboy 23 points 2 months ago

"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"

Liar!

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A_norny_mousse 2 points 2 months ago

Never say never

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SpaceCowboy 0 points 2 months ago

Never!

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Johanno 2 points 2 months ago

Probably

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SpaceCowboy 0 points 2 months ago

Okay...

Probably a liar!

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ignotum 14 points 2 months ago

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

Guess i'll have to stick to Linux 😞

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hperrin 6 points 2 months ago

You could also try that new Microsoft thing. Bob, I think.

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Avicenna 7 points 2 months ago

life has a unique way of fucking up with your expectations

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YurkshireLad 5 points 2 months ago

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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obviouspornalt 2 points 2 months ago

the first edition of this book is what you would have been looking for: https://minix1.woodhull.com/osdi2/

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YurkshireLad 1 point 2 months ago

Cool, thanks!

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