The early days of Linux (2023)
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Re: The early days of Linux (2023)
#2[2023], but that doesn't matter much. Fantastic article! Great to see what development was like at the start - I'd always heard anecdotes, like its humble beginnings and the MINIX argument, but I'd never had context for them before.
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#3> More importantly for the future success of Linux was that the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.
I'm glad that's finally settled. :)
Great read!
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#4Also worth a read: Just for Fun
https://www.amazon.com/Just-Fun-Story-Accidental-Revolutiona...
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#5I knew the very basics of the story, but did not know/hadn't put it together in my mind that kernel 1.0 appeared in mid-1994, and not somewhere in the 1991-1993 timeframe as I had vaguely assumed. Certainly, the Red Hat Linux 2.1 (kernel 1.2.13) I installed in December 1995 (making my home 100% Microsoft-free ever since) felt pretty feature-complete.
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#6lwn.net - Such a beautiful website, just kind of perfect on mobile. Anyone know if it's using a commonly known CMS? builtwith doesn't glean much..
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#7lwn.net - Such a beautiful website, just kind of perfect on mobile. Anyone know if it's using a commonly known CMS? builtwith doesn't glean much..
It’s a custom CMS built using Quixote.
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#8One thing I often think about in the early days of Linux is it's competitors. The article mentions "commercial Unix was so expensive it was easier to write your own". Which is largely true.
However there is also Coherent Unix. I remember adverts for it as the full back page of so many magazines of the day, for $99. I always was on the fence about buying it. One of the big drawbacks of Coherent was that it didn't have any networking.
Then, Linux came out, and it was shockingly shortly after that that Linux surpassed Coherent, and Coherent vanished seemingly overnight.
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#9lwn.net - Such a beautiful website, just kind of perfect on mobile. Anyone know if it's using a commonly known CMS? builtwith doesn't glean much..
It’s a custom CMS built using Quixote.
Joe Brockmeier. Well there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. Sean Reifschneider here, if you remember.
Re: The early days of Linux (2023)
#10It's fascinating that the name 'Linux' was actually chosen by Ari Lemmke, not Linus himself. Details like this highlight the role of community and serendipity in the history of open-source software.