What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux? elfahor ( @elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 10 months ago message-square117fedilinkarrow-up1134
arrow-up1134message-squareWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux? elfahor ( @elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) Linux@lemmy.ml • 10 months ago message-square117fedilink
minus-square Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink26•10 months 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-square argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink2•10 months 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!
386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.