At 20, Linux is invisible, ubiquitous

CNN ^ | August 26, 2011 12:58 p.m. EDT | Mark Milian

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[isthisnickcool]

I remember seeing a post from a guy years ago where he was building his own kernel. We exchanged emails and chatted several times. Seems his idea turned out pretty good. He called the thing LEEEEE-NUX...

[ShadowAce]

Actually, he tried to call it Freax, but it didn’t take.

[Lazlo in PA]

I have Linux as a back-up because Vista was so shady. It does a fine job, but there are just some things that Windows does better.

[MarkL]

The company I work for has been expanding its use of Linux dramatically. We've rolled out more than 2000 workstations for our end users at remote locations. And we've just finished migrating from Outlook/Exchange to Zimbra on Linux. It's not free, we use commercial versions of the software, bit it's a whole LOT cheaper than Microsoft, with nearly all the funcionality... Still, the decision to move to Zimbra will wind up saving nearly $250,000 once we finish our fault tolerant configuration.

Mark

[isthisnickcool]

Actually, he tried to call it Freax, but it didn’t take.

That was before I ran across him. I wish I would have kept some of the conversations I had with him. We were using SCO at the time, building systems with EISA boards and as many as four caching (crashing?-LOL) controllers with as many drives as we could cram in a machine. All SCSI stuff. The darn things got so hot that we would cut holes in the side panel of a tower cabinet (they were hard to find) and then push cold air from small spot coolers using flexible ducting.

We had a lot of fun doing stuff we were told you can't do "with those little machines".....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Had not heard of it but I see it is from VMWare:

VMware Zimbra

[dayglored]

I've used Linux since the late 90's, either as a secondary to NetBSD/Windows/MacOS/OSX, or (for about 3 years) as my primary operating system with the others as secondaries.

It serves a good and necessary purpose, and does so very well. I don't consider myself an "advocate", since I have many feet and one in each of many OS camps. But the Linux feature set is quite necessary to how I have operated for well over a decade.

Before that it was BSD or Sys5 Unix (plus MSDOS, DEC RT and RSX and VMS, early Windows, MacOS). And before that, custom proprietary OSes, or hand-assembled code on the small machines of the mid-70's. And before that, FORTRAN on Big Iron like Burroughs 5500... but I digress....

Linux is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday!!

[pyx]

Read more at cnn.com

For some inexplicable reason, CNN seems to have left out the Global Linux Market Share of Linux servers. CNN seems to have also omitted the Global Linux Market Share of home and business routers. How odd for CNN to have such omissions and yet CNN claims that, QUOTE At 20, Linux is invisible, ubiquitous. UNQUOTE

[UB355]

This is kind of like Seinfeld, an article about nothing.

[Mr. K]

But its FREE SOFTWARE FO RTHE MASSES~!!!

Why arent people running to it?

Maybe gramma needs green hat Ubuntu to grep her rkill -9 on the print service process for her web server she keeps in the sweing room.

yeah... that’s good UI

[ROTB]

Any proper history of computing must mention the PDP-11 ... there.

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I’ve used Linux since the late 90’s, either as a secondary to NetBSD/Windows/MacOS/OSX, or (for about 3 years) as my primary operating system with the others as secondaries.
It serves a good and necessary purpose, and does so very well. I don’t consider myself an “advocate”, since I have many feet and one in each of many OS camps. But the Linux feature set is quite necessary to how I have operated for well over a decade.

Before that it was BSD or Sys5 Unix (plus MSDOS, DEC RT and RSX and VMS, early Windows, MacOS). And before that, custom proprietary OSes, or hand-assembled code on the small machines of the mid-70’s. And before that, FORTRAN on Big Iron like Burroughs 5500... but I digress....

Linux is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday!!

[fremont_steve]

Fortran on a Burroughs B5000 - hmm - me thinks someone is doing recursion in a language not designed for it. Seriously - none of the Burroughs architectures were very good at Fortran. Now if you want to run Cobol - you had some choices.

[fremont_steve]

I do believe that DEC RT & RSX brings in PDP-11’s into the fold.

[TexasRepublic]

“Maybe gramma needs green hat Ubuntu to grep her rkill -9 on the print service process for her web server she keeps in the sweing room.”

I know zilch about Unix syntax, but that has not stopped me from trying out half a dozen Linux variants to see what it is all about. I never had to compile code, either, and still don’t know how. I have been using Linux at home and work for over two years and have never grep’d or rkill’d anything.

[ken in texas]

And before that, FORTRAN on Big Iron like Burroughs 5500... but I digress...

I'll digress a bit more. The B5500 was the first machine used in our curriculum. Got to try a hand in ALGOL, MIX, FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP, SIMULA, GPSS, and BPL. Those were the days. :)

I tinker with Linux a bit but have not transferred everything over.

[ShadowAce]

...and have never grep’d or rkill’d anything.

That's probably because "rkill" is actually a real command. :)

[ShadowAce]

...and have never grep’d or rkill’d anything.

That's probably because "rkill" is not actually a real command. :)