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1. John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jan-2022 13:15:38 UTC John Goerzen

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   • Lars Wirzenius

   @liw #Linux was still the underdog for years after I started using it. It is amazing to look at how stagnant the former dominant players have become. Only Solaris has had any real innovation, and even there #OpenZFS and #BPF seem to be pushing forward more than #ZFS and #dtrace. AIX, Tru64, SCO, HP-UX, etc. have all either withered or died, and even Solaris seems to be heading that way under Oracle.

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   • Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jan-2022 13:15:41 UTC Lars Wirzenius

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     @jgoerzen The early years were an exciting time, to be sure.

   • John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jan-2022 13:15:42 UTC John Goerzen

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     • Lars Wirzenius

     @liw I strongly suspect there may be only one person in the world that's used it longer than you. I switched in around 1995 or 1996, so I guess 26-27 years here.

     I don't think I realized until just now how close to the beginning of Linux that was. That was an incredible amount of progress in just 3-5 years.

   • Lars Wirzenius (liw@toot.liw.fi)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jan-2022 13:15:43 UTC Lars Wirzenius

     Happy new year. I don't know about you, but I've been using Linux as the sole operating system on my personal desktop and laptop computers since 1992, so this promises to yet year 30 of Linux on the desktop for me.