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   Paul (pwaring@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 10:42:02 JST Paul

   • Lars Wirzenius

   If you are interested in the (very) early history of Linux, @liw has written an article for LWN which has a subscriber-invite link so you don't have to wait for it to leave the paywall:

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

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 10:42:27 JST clacke

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     • Lars Wirzenius
     > More importantly for the future success of Linux was that the X11 system was ported to it, making 1992 the year of the Linux desktop.

     
     😁

     @pwaring @liw

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 11:13:26 JST clacke

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     • Lars Wirzenius

     The first-ever interview with Torvalds (by liw, linked from the story) is a great companion to @liw 's own perspective on events:

     liw.fi/linux-news/issue03/

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 16:28:38 JST clacke

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     Never heard of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair… before, sounds like a cool piece of technology and one of all those branches never followed further.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 00:30:22 JST clacke

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     A real rabbit hole if you click down to peripherals and clones. Very cool for a machine I (and I'm assuming most people) never heard about. How did Torvalds end up with one?