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Early days of Linux

Started by tommolica, April 15, 2023, 12:02:05 PM

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tommolica

Interesting article to me, hope other might enjoy it.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/928581/841b747332791ac4/

Cheers, Tom.

fox

Interesting to me, too. Thanks for posting.
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Jason

Thoroughly fascinating, Tom. Thanks for sharing. I love this part, in particular:

"At some point, Linux gained support for Ethernet and TCP/IP. That meant one could read Usenet without having to use a modem. Alas, early Linux networking code was occasionally a little rough, having been written from scratch. 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."

It illustrates our user group philosophy, "If it's not broken, you're not trying hard enough." Linus worked hard at it. :) Failure is the best teacher, after all.
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