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22 years of Linux

  • 26-08-2013 10:16am
    #1
    PrzemoF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭


    "Hello everybody out there using Linux -

    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, even if it's big and professional) for 486+ AT clones and just about anything else out there under the sun. This has been brewing since april 1991, and is still not ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in Linux 3.11-rc7.

    I originally ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), but others have taken over user space and things still seem to work. This implies that I'll get the final 3.11 release within a week, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)"

    https://plus.google.com/+Linux/posts/f96weYxzEu1


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  • #2
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Nerd trivia:

    What was Linux originally called?


  • #3
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Unix. :pac:


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Oh no...wait...wait....

    GNU/Linux.


    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #5
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Khannie wrote: »
    Oh no...wait...wait....

    GNU/Linux.


    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

    Keep guessing.

    Btw I have this anecdote on very good authority from Jan Wildeboer.


  • #6
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    syklops wrote: »
    Nerd trivia:

    What was Linux originally called?

    Minix? Or, saints preserve us, XINU??


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  • #7
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Minix? Or, saints preserve us, XINU??

    No, keep going.


  • #8
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    Loonix, Linus was persuaded to change it by the admin of the college FTP site I believe


  • #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    syklops wrote: »
    No, keep going.

    Ah, of course - Freax!


  • #10
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Skrynesaver wrote: »
    Loonix, Linus was persuaded to change it by the admin of the college FTP site I believe

    The story I heard was he wanted to call it Freax, and the admin thought it was a daft name and so called it Linux.


  • #11
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    syklops wrote: »
    The story I heard was he wanted to call it Freax, and the admin thought it was a daft name and so called it Linux.

    Daft it was, but probably not as bad as Stallman's "Lignux". ;)


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  • #12
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    Could be freax, haven't read "just for fun" in years now


  • #13
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    First version I got came on 90+ x 3.5 floppies (CDs writers were still expensive pieces of kit in '93). I'm sure I still have them in a box somewhere but whether they're still readable is another matter.


  • #14
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭niallb


    First time we installed Slackware it needed over 60 floppies to install.
    Of course we only had 10, so it was a long night of diskcopy in batches...

    Worth it though, we ended up being able to share a single 4MB RAM 66MHz 486DX2 between three of us with a serial terminal dumped from ANCO on one serial port and an old 8088 with an amber screen running conex.com from a boot floppy on the other. Then we worked out how to add more serial ports.
    Things progressed to networking in a 386 using PLIP via the parallel ports, snd eventually a more powerful 486 (DX4 100MHz), but it all started with the floppies...
    The kernel version in that slackware release was 1.0.59 I'm almost certain.

    I think I paid well over £200 for my first CD drive a 2x speed creative drive packaged with an ISA sound blaster card. First linux CD's I got often had directories full of floppy images.


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