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I don’t get it. The article says that hardware is 1974 was expensive but UNIX was cheap to develop. Linus developing Linux just confirms what they are saying. Is the joke that computers used to be expensive and now they are cheap?
The joke is that a couple of drunk guys enduring an eternal winter came up with something better than silicon valley could.
UNIX was a small and inexpensive open source system and could create miracles for such a low price.
When Linus came into scene, UNIX was heavily fragmented, expensive, closed with some insane trickery to make sure nobody cross compiles anything on the “enemy UNIX” (rival). I don’t say go and read them but the size of auto tools should give a clue. It is one of the under rated inventions of GNU. Obviously BSD people have their own valid counter point too.
The only serious thing around was still Novell who begun to take UNIX serious right after Linux had a serious shape. I remember my company paid a Novell tech $2000 to restore the files from their SCSI. It wasn’t a rip off, that is what happens when you use a closed system. Who knows how much money Novell took for training. For the curious: They still didn’t buy a tape backup system.
We should just read first lines, check photo additionally remembering all those suits at IBM, Sun and MS and laugh. That is what meme is for. :-)
I also laugh whenever I see the quote of a open source developer with a cowboy hat in elevator of MS .
MS guy (with BillG tone): I am sorry but who are you? OSS guy: I am your worst nightmare!
I wonder if these idiots know you can buy a second-hand laptop for less than half of that $40,000 and install Linux on it yourself
In 1974?
With this technology?
At this time of year?
UNIX in Bell Labs back in the 70’s might need $40,000 worth of hardware, today you can get an old Raspberry Pie for like $50.
That would be an expensive pie. I also don’t know how it’s going to help me with running unix.
The joke: The single board computer is called a Raspberry Pi
$50??? The Zero model costs like 15 dollars
I haven’t fucked with a Raspberry pie in a long time, lol, I was just making a point. I don’t think they come with any storage so you still have to get like a $20 USB drive.
128gb sd cards are ~$15 bucks from a reputable seller, but you don’t need one that big to run linux
To be fair, Bell Labs’ 40,000$ computer probably didn’t come with any storage either.
Those were the punch card days, storage was a lot different back then. Everything was running in the RAM, and rebooting took like a day to get everything running again.
Swedish*
He speaks Swedish but otherwise is definitely a Finn.
oh my god he’s born in the funny year
That’s why he’s so good with his middle finger.
Apologies, Im sure his father entered the Swedish People’s party by accident.
Yes, that makes them swedish-speaking finns. Still finns tho
Oh my, now they are trying to Marie Curie Linus Torvalds.
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Marie Curie was Polish but the French pretty much convinced the whole world she was French.
Good thing Linus is Swedish. If you knew history and read the wiki, you would know about swedish rule of Finland and that a numerable swedish minority stayed in Finland over the centuries.
Since his father is in the “Swedish Peoples Party”, I will assume Finns casually use Swedish as a denomination for people who live in Finland but speak Swedish. I think he also talked about speaking Swedish at his home with his family.
Wow, lemmy goes to new lows every day. I cant understand why I have to feed this to you…
I’ve met him. He says he’s Finnish. He was born in Finland and attended school in Finland. He graduated from the University of Helsinki. He has since moved to the United States of America. So he’s a little bit American now.
Yep, typical Marie Curie intent. I guess Swedes don’t have enough famous people.
He says he’s a Finn. He was born in Finland. He lived in Finland until he emigrated to the USA.
Then you say he’s actually Swedish because he knows the language, his dad was from Sweden, and “Marie Curie”. Bizarre.
