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1772 sats \ 15 comments \ @hn 14 Apr 2023 tech

145 sats \ 1 reply \ @jk_14 14 Apr 2023

"At one point, Linux would send some broken packets that took down all of the Sun machines on the network. As it was difficult to get the Sun kernel fixed, Linux was banned from the university network until its bug was fixed. Not having Usenet access from one's desk is a great motivator."

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15 Apr 2023

Foreshadowing how responsible disclosures will be handled by some parties

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 15 Apr 2023

After finishing the game, Linus started learning Intel assembly language. One day he showed me a program that did multitasking. One task or thread would write a stream of the letter "A" on the screen, the other "B"; the context switches were visually obvious when the stream of As became Bs. This was the first version of what would later become known as the Linux kernel.

And I did the same when was learning x86 protected mode and tried to do multitasking in assembler (was lucky in 1990s to randomly buy book in Russian [because programming books in English were more expensive back in the day in Latvia] about assembler, which had three parts - assembler for beginners, floating point stuff and protected mode).

5 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 15 Apr 2023

Starting my Linux journey. Hard to do after so many years on windows

3 sats \ 3 replies \ @scottathan 15 Apr 2023

You can do it bro. The learning curve is a little steep but the benefits are enormous.

57 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 15 Apr 2023

Very steep often get so frustrated at times like the simplest things just won’t work

For example I was trying to use blockstream green on my Linux laptop and my computer could not locate my Jade wallet. No clue why it wouldn’t detect it

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @drlh 31 Aug

How's it been? Have you migrated back to windows since?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

For desktop I haven’t. I only use my windows machine when I need files of it or need to use Google chrome for something. I realized I don’t need to be a CLI master to enjoy Linux. PopOS works fine

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @doofus 5 Mar

I'm glad I found this story in the related section. I love internet archaeology.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @hn OP 17 Apr 2023

This link was posted by Paul-Craft 2 days ago on HN. It received 1313 points and 221 comments.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hn OP 17 Apr 2023

Notified OP on HN that their post received 1148 sats and 11 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595557

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 15 Apr 2023

While this was happening, I was taking a nap, and I recommend this method of installing Linux: napping, while Linus does the hard work.

Dang man, I've been doing it wrong this whole time

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @samuelorji47 15 Apr 2023

Linux, computer operating system created in the early 1990s by Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). While still a student at the University of Helsinki, Torvalds started developing Linux to create a system similar to MINIX, a UNIX operating system.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 15 Apr 2023

I spent a lot of time playing Prince of Persia in 1990s too. And later was coding my own hobby OS too.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 15 Apr 2023

Damn, I would have totally missed that link from HN if my bot didn't post this here.

Very interesting read.