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Linux distro timeline 1992-2007

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It was started with Linus’ announcement:

Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I’ve currently ported bash (1.08) and gcc (1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them :-) Linus (PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc.), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-( .”

And today it’s timeline is shown at 2003×2841 image…

linux timeline 1992-2007

Fun: Bill Gates quotes

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you’ll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features.

The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC.

People everywhere love Windows.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

gates quotes

Fun: How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux

Just came across a site that explains how to make Windows to look like Ubuntu (themes, boot screem, icons)…

If you are using a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows, you can clearly notice the limitations Linux has. And for many (myself included), Linux is extremely difficult. After awhile I came to the conclusion that I didn’t t need ubuntu at all, but I still loved to look and feeling.

As it comes from site, Linux has usability limitations. LOL!!! :)

make windows look like ubuntu

stress: workload simulator for Linux

linux stressstress utility is a workload generator that imposes certain types of stress on UNIX-like operating systems:

stress is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when the system is under heavy load. Note that a primary design goal is simplicity and portability, so while stress runs on everything from Linux to AIX to K42, it is not as sophisticated as tools like gamut or dbench. In general, stress is has proved useful in a number of disparate research efforts.

I use this utility to test newly compiled “light” kernel before applying it onto the running and workable server. Nice and useful one definitely.

Packages for Debian are here, + Gentoo ebuild and FreeBSD port. Sources of latest version can be got from this link.

As usual Ubuntu users just run sudo aptitude install stress and get workable stress utility.

Linux + 8*PS3 = Cluster for gravity simulation

A certain Gaurav Khanna from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth created computing cluster based on 8 (eight) Sony PlayStation 3 consoles that is meant to simulate gravity processes. The project is named as “PS3 Gravity Grid” and allows to model Binary Black Hole Coalescence using Perturbation Theory. Actually it’s not first case when PS3 is used as a component for cluster as it has not bad Cell Processor and it’s open platform. How do you think, what operating system manages cluster? Windows? Nope. It’s Linux.

ps3 cluster

 

ps3 rack side

 

ps3 boxes

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