elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?message-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1197arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square185fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePapamousse@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up26·1 year agoIt 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!
minus-squareCpo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThe 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!
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.
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!
Same!
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!
386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.