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Grandwolf319 ,

I’m OOTL, what’s the backstory here?

thesporkeffect ,

Linux

Grandwolf319 ,

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I’m pretty sure the eventual conversion of every atom in the universe to computronium will run Linux.

thingsiplay ,

(just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu)

Aged like fine milk. Looking at you, GNU Hurd.

Hadriscus ,

Has he come up with a name yet ?

thingsiplay ,

Freax

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

It’s a minix clone, so… mimix?

neidu2 ,

I actually like that name, but it might be too close to the original for trademark comfort.

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

I love it, totally should have gone with that.

“This is Linus Torvalds introducing minix as Linux.”

HairyHarry ,

How about lUnix?

LodeMike ,

GNU is older than Linux? Neat.

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah… but it was just RMS yelling at people from a street corner, nobody actually used it until Linux came along ;-)

netvor ,
@netvor@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah. And I like how even from the message it shows that it’s been already well recognized by then.

If I recall correctly from some RMS’ talks I’ve seen many years ago, they’ve been working on it for years before, it’s just the kernel that was missing. As I see it, GNU and Linux was the breakthrough for FLOSS, since at that time you would still have to use a proprietary kernel. (Well, there’s GNU Hurd, but I’m not sure if it existed at that time, and even if it did, it was not ready.)

Affidavit ,

This somehow makes me feel both old and young at the same time.

savvywolf ,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

Ehh, it’ll never take off.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Truly humble beginnings.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.

masterspace ,

My cousin’s buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn’t feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

that’s all I have :-(

aww

30p87 ,

Poor Linus :c

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

We should make a donation campaign, pretty sure somebody has a spare SATA drive around. This minix clone sounds good

themoonisacheese ,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

A few years ago there was a fantastic video detailing thorvald’s PC and it is a beast, crazy how far we’ve come

pelya ,

Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

30p87 ,

I love it™ (The nested parentheses are one of the greatest tools known to mankind (And to all other creatures))

Quetzalcutlass ,

To paraphrase an old tweet: “parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts”.

Homescool ,

I always tell myself I am reading minds when I read inside parentheses

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.

I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn’t seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text [2](nolink "Like This. But even though I write "nolink", that is still some text that gets converted to a link, making it upto the reader to read the address bar and realise the problem").

[1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.

MBM ,

Lemmy’s markdown does actually have footnotes!^[they work like this: ^[text here]]

pelya ,

Eh, Lemmy Connect does not format it properly.

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

Checking in from Avelon 😉

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’ve had a teacher in elementary school scream at me for doing so. (Nesting parentheses is forbidden. [You are supposed to use brackets.])

pelya ,

It’s wild seeing square brackets for something other than array indexing.

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

I had a teacher that screamed at me for “taking the lords name in vain…” They’re definitely wrong from time-to-time ;-)

Matriks404 ,

I once did double “parentheses” in speech when started doing streaming year ago, lol.

vu2tum ,

“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

DontRedditMyLemmy ,

Or wanted to appear non-threatening

neidu2 ,

I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

I’m glad someone was able to donate a non-AT drive because Linus could not afford it :-(

finley ,

it seems so innocent, lol

ExtremeDullard ,
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If you except Google co-opting Linux to create the most terrible dystopian mobile surveillance platform ever to come this close to 1984, Microsoft co-opting it to pretend they like open-source and broaden the reach of their closed-source crap, and sonsabitches like Redhat, amazingly it mostly still is.

KevonLooney ,

Uh, Android is the alternative to Apple’s iOS. Android is much more customizable.

Black616Angel ,

Which is kinda sad in its own way.

masterofn001 ,

Think Different™ (But in the exact same way)

sunbeam60 ,

Azure don’t give a shit what it runs. Windows is on its own these days; if they succeed, good for them, but honestly I think the days of Microsoft just pretending to give a shit about Linux are long gone; it’s an important OS to them too.

I’ve worked for Microsoft for 12 years, still have lots of friends there so I get some of the vibe from that.

Builtin ,

Putting Red hat in the same group as Google and Microsoft is wild.

bizarroland ,

That's because Red hat recently started doing some Microsoft and Google like shit.

Ashiette ,

It’s not that far fetched, Google used to have somehow the same philosophy as current IBM-RedHat.

themoonisacheese ,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

While Microsoft and Google merely pretend to like open source but transparently hate it, it is (was) not quite as obvious that red hat wanted to capture the enterprise Linux market wholesale. What red hat has done is terrible for the ecosystem, much more so than Microsoft just throwing out worthless tokens of appreciation.

bizarroland ,

If you don't like what they are doing with Linux, because it is free and open source, participate in people that are using it in ways that you do like that they do it, or do it yourself.

There is nothing stopping you

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

He was 22 years old. Pretty incredible.

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