On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:46 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Tim> It was 30 years ago today Linus sent out his fateful email about Tim> his os he didn't think was going to turn into a "big thing."
Amazing stuff. And amazing how many OSes I've worked on over the years that have fallen to the wayside of mainstream use: HPUX, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, TOPS-20 (there's an emulator online!) Irix, ConvexOS, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Oh wait, ConvexOS (which morphed into HPUX when they bough Convex), Cray's Unicos. All systems I've supported and worked on over the years.
With Linux in various flavors and distributions being the core of my work for the past 15 years I would say. Though Solaris has lasted the longest of the mainstream vendors, even though Oracle has pretty much killed it off now.
We tried to keep sparc alive a little longer at least by releasing Oracle Linux on sparc as recently as 2017. Now that arm is the new hotness that's where the "alt" releases are.
Tim> This is an amazing group full of quirky, smart and enthusiast Tim> linux users! I hope in some way we've helped to make linux a Tim> success!
Quirky is right! I'm certainly quirky! *grin* _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/GC4JKD...