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!!
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!!
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.
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.