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The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops • The Register

<https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/> @sjvn

❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞

#analysis #Android #Apple #benevolent #cats #Canonical #ChromeOS #consensus #containers #Dell #desktop #dictator #dogs #DragonflyBSD #expert #Flatpak #Foundation #FreeBSD #GhostBSD #GNU #GPL #group #jails #licence #license #Linus #Linux #Mac #Mach #macOS #market #Microsoft #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #opinion #POSIX #share #Slackware #Snap #standards #success #Sun #technology #Torvalds #UNIX #Windows #work #year

TheRealStu,

@grahamperrin @sjvn Too funny I just read this

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@TheRealStu I can't recall what led me to the article, but the coincidence for me was discovery on the same day (27th January 2024) as an April 1999 article:

ZDNet Sm@rt Reseller - The Oldest Free OS

<https://web.archive.org/web/19991001172735/http://www8.zdnet.com/sr/stories/column/0,4712,398025,00.html>

(Found whilst unearthing fourteen years of press that had been deleted from the FreeBSD Project website.)

@sjvn

#FreeBSD #press #history

grahamperrin,
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@TheRealStu @sjvn haha that toot about archaic content was automatically boosted by a 'Breaking News Feed'

sjvn,
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@grahamperrin @TheRealStu Well... Oxide Computer just release a new OpenSolaris clone, so it's sort of related to something new. Kind of. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios

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