[TUHS] Linux is on-topic

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sat Jul 18 06:04:22 AEST 2020


Oh yeah, I wasn't talking about your post, your post was fine.  I was
thinking more like "Does anyone know how to get $DEVICE to work in
ubuntu 5.13?".  I think that is what Grant meant as well.

Historical is great.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 01:00:27PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
> I think that "Where can I find a clean copy of an HJ Lu boot/root set?" is
> an acceptable-for-here Linux tech support question, to be honest.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:58 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 05:53:58AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:08:31PM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> > > > In my humble-but-correct opinion*, Linux and its
> > > > origins fit into the general topic of UNIX history..
> > > > Warren gets final say, of course, but to encourage
> > > > him I will say: Ploooogie!
> > >
> > > I'm happy with it, you silly twisted boy, you.
> >
> > But +1 to Grant's point not to turn TUHS into a Linux support forum.
> > Quite frankly, I'm old dude who relies on his kids to fix his phone
> > and I can google and find answers to just about any Linux problem.
> > So no need for that here.
> >

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