Yes it was ablast to be able to rub real Unix programs with "ls" and shell and fork(2) on 386 Ollivetti after years of having to rock up to a serial terminal connected to a Vax to enjoy them.
But let me tell what I think about this discussion: http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch Happy anniversary :-) On Apr 7, 2013 5:38 AM, "Richard Ibbotson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well today pretty much marks 20 years since I've used Linux at > > > home. > > I started using Debian and RedHat Linux when I was at www.shef.ac.uk > back in 1993. Then I got into e-mail discussions with Richard > Stevenson at Pegasus Mail in New Zealand. By 95/96 I was helping to > start the first UK LUG - www.manlug.org.uk - and then later - > www.sheflug.org.uk - which I still run. The discussion with Richard > Stevenson was about the fact that I would have to be nuts to suggest > that a free desktop could exist on Linux. But, as we all know. Times > have changed. I spent ten years writing for - www.linuxuser.co.uk - > www.linuxformat.co.uk - http://www.linux-magazine.com/ . Travelled > round the world a few times doing that. > > Just at the moment we seem to be experiencing a healthy FOSS > environment with many versions of GNU/Linux and BSD out there. It > wasn't always like that. > > -- > Richard > > https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 > http://www.sheflug.org.uk > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
