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*
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