June 19, 2003

How The Linux Penguin Learned to Fly

http://http://nefiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/linux

The tendency in information technology is to look forwards, not backwards. But remember that "the future of the present is in the past". What is now depends crucially upon what was then, and knowing this is helpful in all sorts of ways, not least because of the UNIX tradition of maintaining traditions, sometimes just for tradition's sake. So here is an illustrated and documented history of Lunux, showing how far the OS concept has come in a decade.

Posted by jho at June 19, 2003 08:54 PM
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