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Anniversary of First Linux Kernel Release: A Look at Collaborative Value
Linux.com ^
| 02 October 2015
| Jennifer Cloer
Posted on 10/05/2015 5:27:24 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:27:24 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:28:15 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
It would take a team of 1,356 developers over 30 years to recreate the code base in these projects. But, if we have 488,160 developers, we could do it all in one month.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:32:38 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
To: ShadowAce
Linux and tools/apps has evolved to the point it is now my O/S of choice for the home desktop.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:34:30 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
![](http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z347/ShadowAce1800/Tech_Ping_1.png)
Fixed URL for ping graphic. Gotta switch hosting sites.....
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:36:49 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
sez the image has expired.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:37:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Yeah—and it takes nine women only one month to make a baby.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:37:45 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
I met Linus back then. We were using SCO, etc.
Linux has been very very good to me.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:37:47 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
To: Paladin2
Yeah—I’ve been Linux-only since 2003. I’ve enjoyed the evolution.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:39:14 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ClearCase_guy
LOL!
I assume you’ve read The Mythical Man-Month, and that was said tongue-in-cheek?
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:40:36 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ShadowAce
Started with Slackware, compiled my own kernel, good stuff back in the day!
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:42:12 AM PDT
by
NCjim
(Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:44:42 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
To: ShadowAce
For me, the clunk is gone and XPP in a VirtualBox runs Office just fine.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:45:09 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: Paladin2
Even LibreOffice is looking pretty good these days with version 5 out.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:46:13 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ClearCase_guy
But, if we have 488,160 developers, we could do it all in one month. LOL... I see you read The Mythical Man-Month.
To: ShadowAce
Me too. Linux became my primary home OS around 2005/2006. I still keep a windows box around for the odd things that can't (yet) be done on Linux. I think the only thing left in that bucket is updating the maps on my GPS. Which reminds me, I need to boot up the windows machine and do that...
18 of my 30+ years in the field (including current position) have been spent using Unix or Linux as a primary development platform.
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posted on
10/05/2015 5:53:49 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: ShadowAce
Ubuntu/Xubuntu alone have come a long way
![](http://i.imgur.com/7v7AGcT.jpg)
(Actual install error message I received circa 2007 -- network mouse??)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
10/05/2015 6:15:18 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
I thought that it being a "kernel" meant that it wasn't that big. It was able to do all the basic stuff that an OS needed to do in a very small package.
Now they're proud that the kernel has become a cornfield and probably more hackable.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
You and I seem to have the same idea of what an OS should be.
Unfortunately, we also seem to be in the minority.
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posted on
10/05/2015 7:33:38 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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