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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 12:17:23 JST nixCraft 🐧

   In 1991, Linus Torvalds was studying UNIX at university, where he was using a special educational, experimental purpose operating system called Minix. However, Minix had its limitations, and Linus felt he could create something better.

   • Linux_Is_Best (linux_is_best@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 13:02:29 JST Linux_Is_Best

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     @nixCraft There is (was) an old post board, where Linus Torvalds announced his new operating system. At the time, there was a young child, using a family member's computer, who didn't know what he was talking about and, with poor typing kills, attempted to tell him that his OS was a failure and would never go anywhere.

     I have never been so wrong.

   • Optaunix (optaunix@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 13:52:48 JST Optaunix

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     @nixCraft I've often wondered what gave him the magic sauce for the Kernel, but I realized the Mel tie in while I was typing this. Excellent.

   • Isho'ye (wuffish@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 16:28:31 JST Isho'ye

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     @nixCraft Paraphrasing from a post shared on the twitter, "Linux is a product of love and spite."

     Truer words have not been spoken.

   • vermaden (vermaden@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 16:46:32 JST vermaden

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     @nixCraft

     If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.

     - Linus Torvalds (Meta Magazine in 1993)

   • The Ideal fox (zealousideal_fox_900@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 17:52:32 JST The Ideal fox

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     @nixCraft Absolute chad right here

   • Neighborhood Nerd (andrewmettier@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 17:54:35 JST Neighborhood Nerd

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     @nixCraft legend