Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux • Hacker News Board

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by dleslie » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #18

dleslie wrote: post #16

I used to order boxes of Ubuntu CDs, when they still shipped them for free, and would hand them out to students at University; the pitch that it had a full free office-compatible suite and a C compiler was enough to get people to readily pick up discs.

I remember my first year of Uni having to go to the lab just to find a Sun work station (running Red Hat) so I could do my comp sci assignments and hope that there was one available otherwise I'd have to make the trek to the building again. During the winter months this trek was arduous. It was so great in my 2nd year after learned about Ubuntu, figuring out how to install it on my Windows PC and being able to dual b…

... SFU had Sun Workstations running Red Hat. They replaced the Solaris machines. Did you go to SFU?

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by sbuttgereit » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

Removing "Ubuntu" from the title is probably a good idea. We can see who wrote the article from the domain. At first I thought, "What? Ubuntu is 30 yrs old?" As others mention it's not... it's Linux that is. This is just an Ubuntu blog entry on the matter.

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by blumomo » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

Thanks for Linux! Thanks for Ubuntu! Thanks to System76 to provide Pop_OS! on top of Ubuntu and building Linux laptops (not the best build quality but the open philosophy is priceless). Thanks for this ecosystem!

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by SevenSigs » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

My first Linux distro was Slackware on floppy disks... very thankful for Linux.

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by techrat » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:41 PM UTC

bdz wrote: post #13

johnchristopher wrote: post #8

I remember installing Ubuntu 4.10 and then discussing it on a forum and someone was like "no mp3 support ? what stupid distro is that lol".

I was in high school and that was the first time I've ever seen a live CD. A full functioning OS running on a CD? School PCs were running XP and most things were locked down. But lo and behold the magic live CD made you do a lot of things otherwise were not allowed. Good times. I always had a live CD with me for years (and it was actually really useful)

Coming from someone who grew up during the floppy diskette booting and installing era of computing... what Knoppix managed to do by giving us the LiveCD just still seems like pure black magic fuckery to me. Install an OS from CD? Fine. USING an OS only booting from CD? HOLY SHIT.

I'm glad it became an option on the majority of distributions. IMHO it still remains the killer feature over Windows if you want to show someone what Linux can do.

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:43 PM UTC

jstx1 wrote: post #3

> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) Nice.

Oh, huh. For some reason I always remembered that sentence as, "won't be big and professional like Hurd".

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by igetspam » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 10:45 PM UTC

Wow do I feel old. I was running Slackware on my desktop in high school. 2.0.3x kernel. It must have been '96 or '97. It was so difficult. So. Many. Floppies. Printer? Hah! Good luck! Dial up modems worked well enough but your ISP better not be fancy. IRC from the terminal, not an xterm. So old...

Happy birthday! You've come so far. I've been a daily driver for most of your existence and these days it's not even hard.

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by xbpx » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

Linux somehow managed to be both the dark horse and the pride pony. Preferred tool of hacker and mega corp alike. It helped launch my career in tech when I messed up a dual boot with Windows XP and fixed it by partitioning MS out of existence. Haven't looked back since.

Happy Birthday Linux!!

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by johnny53169 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:04 PM UTC

CameronNemo wrote: post #19

johnny53169 wrote: post #15

I'm so grateful for Shuttleworth ongoing support for Ubuntu for 17 years, it all costs a lot but Ubuntu has been a key contribution for Linux. It's important to praise good contribution IMO

Ubuntu is only ~17 years old. Shuttleworth is ~48 years old.

Corrected thank you!

Re: Happy birthday – 30 years of Linux

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Post by lloydatkinson » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:07 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #8

I remember installing Ubuntu 4.10 and then discussing it on a forum and someone was like "no mp3 support ? what stupid distro is that lol".

My first experience was Ubuntu 8 and it just looks and feels so much better than what it is now: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Ubuntu-d...