I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

  • Papamousse
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    252 years ago

    It was free, I could not afford a Sun workstation and Minix had problems, so when this Finnish guy wrote in Usenet that he was working on a free kernel/OS, it was cool!

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        The biggest bonus to the democratic world stems from just one individual. And the rest of the world believing in his idea.

        So never say that just you cannot make a difference in this world.

        Because you can!

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.