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Linux Is 10 Today
genixia noted that the BBC was the first to note that
Linux has turned 10 today. Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.
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In a way, this is kind of sad. I mean Linux is 10 years old, put together by a bunch of people who aren't all that interested in being the next Bill Gates, and it's one of the most stable and reliable OSs out there.
It really makes you think - for years, many of us were taught in school that non-capatalist approaches result in poor quality at a very high price.
But at least in this one case, it seems that just the opposite is true: after 20+ years of development, MacOS and Windows and many others, funded by billions of dollars, are just starting to get the stability of Linux. And sadly, this stability is at the expense of flexibility. And with a much higher pricetag. Linux is cheaper, faster, and better. And it isn't even a "product".
This is a testament to the abilities and the desires of those who have worked on Linux over the past decade. The corporate world - you have let us down, and look what we have done. Hold your heads in shame.
C++ - 15 years
Mac - closing in on 20
x86 - too damn long, more than 20
This is an accomplishment, don't get me wrong. But 10 years is not, no matter what the dot-commers would have you think, a huge milestone in computing. This is just the continued maturation of a product getting better all the time.
Congrats to everybody who's changing the way software is created!
> 10 years in computer history is a big milestone
Yep. That's almost 20% of the way back to the Beginning of Time, as far as electronic computers go.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
This is the only quote I don't agree with. I think the users are probably the worst thing about Linux. I'm not saying that all users are bad, but what annoys me is the people whose only response to a question is RTFM. The people who get on their high horse about how superior Linux is and how everything else sucks also annoy me, but not as much since I know they're right, these are also the people who respond to any Windows problem by telling them to reformat and install Linux.
I think the Linux user community has a ways to go and should learn to be more inclusive of non-Linux users and Linux users who are new to Linux. Once the Linux users become more helpful, then I'll agree that the Linux users are the best thing about Linux.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I should have mentionned, "IN TERMS OF PERSONNAL COMPUTING"
:), if you want to list that way here goes:
:) - "
:) 10 years in computing history is a lot. Enuff said.
Unix 30 years ago wasn't available on your personnal desktop, heck, sorry, there wasn't any personnal desktops...
A majority of personnal computers/OS that were there 20 years ago aren't here anymore... mainly because previous architechture's efficiency was due to the fact that the os was tight to it's supporting hardware, but since you mention it, macOS never ran on any other architechture than it's own, unless running thru an emulator of course
C64 - didn't last 10 years
Coco - "
Adam - "
TRS-80 - "
TI994A
VIC20 - "
BE - agony nice if it can live as an embedded solution but that means killing it's basic root, like amiga did.
Etc... - this could go on for days.
Granted these are almost more microcontroller firmware than OSes, but that was due to the ressources available at the time, look at the mac or the amiga that came in after, it was a bit less tight, look at BE dying slowly and being converted to embedded, etc etc
10 years is a HUGE milestone in computing, stop giving sucessful examples, of COURSE SOME STUFF MANAGE TO SURVIVE thru time, sheesh.
10 years ago, you wouldn't even RAYTRACE a 10 second flick on your personnal computer because you would have died waiting.
10 years ago, multiprocessor was only a mainframe buzzword.
10 years ago, 3Dchipsets were out-of-reach technologies
10 years ago, GUI on a PC was a joke
10 years ago, some tools you take for granted today didn't EVEN exist, CD-R is a good example
10 years ago, 256 colors was luxury
10 years ago, internet wasn't something 99.99% of the people knew about
10 years ago you would get 40megs for the price you get 100gigs today.
so please, spare me the dot.com junk argument
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.