elfahor ( elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years agoWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?message-squaremessage-square114linkfedilinkarrow-up1134file-text
arrow-up1134message-squareWhat are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?elfahor ( elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years agomessage-square114linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePapamousse ( Frederic@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up26·3 years 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-squareargv_minus_one ( argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) Bannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years 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.