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  1. «I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory

  2. «I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory

  3. «I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory

  4. «I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory

  5. «I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory

  6. 🚀 Ah, the glory days of #VA #Linux, where selling dreams of penguins 🐧 on servers led to the dotcom era's biggest #IPO circus. A model so groundbreaking it's now a relic of tech fossils 🦖. Who knew Linux could cause such a stock market comedy show? 😂
    dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the- #LinuxHistory #DotcomEra #TechFossils #StockMarketComedy #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🌐 From NetWare & NT 3.51 to Linux in ‘96—read a 30-year technologist's retrospective on Linux's evolution from a licensing workaround to the world's backbone OS.

    📖 A deep dive into its early struggles, hard-won victories, and what comes next.

    🔗 linuxexpert.org/from-licenses-

    #Linux #OpenSource #SysAdmin #DevOps #FOSS #Debian #LinuxHistory #ServerLife

  8. Article from @lwn

    "The first honest-to-goodness distribution with a proper installer was MCC Interim Linux, created by Owen Le Blanc, released publicly in early 1992. I recently reached out to Le Blanc to learn more about his work on the distribution, what he has been doing since, and his thoughts on Linux in 2025."

    lwn.net/Articles/1017846/

    #Computers #Linux #LinuxHistory #Distributions #Software