I did not see it when it happened. I was only introduced to Linux in 1992.<br><br>We sure have come a long way!<br><br>Heh, heh. Both of my kids sneer at the windows machines at school. Thanks to that steaming pile of unstable dreck called Windows NT 3.51, I converted fully to Linux in 1997. While I have had work-supplied dual-boot system, often with no employer knowledge of my OS installation antics, I have only used the windows side to do mandatory monthly windows updates and password changes.<br>
<br>Submitted from my single booting Fedora 15 x86_64 Toshiba laptop with external happy hacker 2 lite keyboard running kernel 2.6.40.3 on a dual core Athalon X2 down-clocked to 1.050 GHz so I won't make popcorn at the fan outlet.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Richard Faulkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Submitted from my single booting Ubuntu 10.10 hacked-HP xw4600 running the "2.6.35-30-generic-pae" Linux Kernel.<br>
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Anyone remember this message? <br>
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From:<a href="mailto:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI" target="_blank">torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI</a> (Linus Benedict Torvalds)<br>
Newsgroup: comp.os.minix<br>
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?<br>
Summary: small poll for my new operating system<br>
Message-ID: 1991Aug25, <a href="mailto:20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI" target="_blank">20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI</a><br>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT<br>
Organization: University of Helsinki.<br>
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Hello everybody out there using minix-<br>
<br>
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big<br>
and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has<br>
been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like<br>
any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS<br>
resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem<br>
due to practical reasons)among other things.<br>
<br>
I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.<br>
This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd<br>
like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,<br>
but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)<br>
<br>
Linus Torvalds <a href="mailto:torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi" target="_blank">torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi</a><br>
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUX! <br>
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Thanks Linus and many happy returns!!<br>
<br>
Rich in Lilburn<br>
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