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Linux Timeline By LWN and LJ
A reader wrote to us with the link that Linux Journal has put together a Linux Timeline. Kinda nice to walk down memory lane - and think about what was on peoples' mind at each major point. Of course, if I see the original letter Linus wrote at the beginning one more time...*grin*
2005 : Open Source programmers get laid.
2006 : All Open Source development halts.
Stephen King is dead post
goatse.cx post
'Windows Apologist' post
'Who cares about anime?' post
And, more importantly, 'Man, Slashdot just ruined the Lone Rangers season finale!' day.
A winner is you!
7.22.2002- The Linux Timeline gets ./ed, showing that even though Linux can hold up, even the best internet connections can't.
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Steve Ballmer imitates a monkey and gets big laughs at at a party.
John Ashcroft gets the shivers, and puts down the Peep-Hole magazine he was reading in sudden unease.
July 2002: Linux Journal still not capable of withstanding a slashdotting.
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hmmm. if only Linus knew what was to come when he wrote the following in his first posting to the minix newsgroup:
.... probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks
It is NOT protable
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
February 11th, 1999
I stop pronouncing it "Line-Ux"
Ok, I read the entire timeline.. yes I have far too much time on my hands.. but, why is Dmitry Sklyarov's arrest at Defcon last year included? This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux, and is completely separate geek news. They don't even pretend to try to tie it into Linux. As far as I can tell, the E-Book software in question only runs in windows anyways..
yeah...uh, still need a hand? :)
It's been a long time.
That's called a Big Ol' Programmer's Beard. You will notice that you will one day have the urge to grow one, and one's salary seems to roughly follow the length and bushiness of the beard. I suggest you try it.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
This just in: Linux is about as dead as (if not moreso than) BSD. Yes, it's true, Linux is dying at about twice the rate, possibly even more, than BSD.
For the clueful readers: this is just an attempt to see how many /. readers will actually skip reading this comment completely, and reply with raving banter glorifying Linux, as I'm sure they will no doubt do so any chance they get. Indeed, Linux is dying at twice the rate if not more than BSD. If you take into account the fact that BSD is thriving, then you'd realize that the above comment makes perfect sense: Linux is thriving twice as much BSD, and if not, then my guess is only a wildly inaccurate low figure.
This is in response to all the postings that BSD is dead or dying in many of the numerous threads on Slashdot, all of which having about as much warrant as my saying Linux is dying. Yes, this is much like the contents of the subject of this very message you're reading, it's totally false, has no merit whatsoever. That's the point.
I hope that I prove to at least some people that saying BSD is dead is much like saying Linux is dead. That's hardly accurate. It just so happens that it's much easier to *see* that Linux isn't dead, than it is to see BSD isn't dead, given the fact that many of you are using Linux at this very moment, or at the very least, have Linux installed and devote some amount of time to it.
Indeed, I am using BSD right now, and I know for a fact that it's not dead. But, I also take enough time to realize that Linux isn't dead either.
This is an experiment, the results of which should prove quite interesting, if not very entertaining. Enjoy!