[TUHS] Linux is on-topic

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 15:58, 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.
>

I think back to those mouldy oldie days, and my set of early things were...
- First got exposed to BSD 4.1 with MFCF extensions ('86)
- Couldn't afford *real* hardware, so I tracked whatever could run on
   Atari ST, and the biggest improvement I was able to get there was
   to be able to run Bash, early GCC, and sundry GNU tools, where
   I couldn't spawn multiple processes, but there was still plenty of useful
- Then followed the MiNT period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT)
   where we accepted that MiNT is NOT TOS, but still lended a POSIX
   interface, only to be briefly overjoyed at the rename to "MiNT is
   NOW TOS"
- First paid work on Unix ('93) involved SCO (where that was the
  debugging platform for some C code targeting VMS!); that was a
  platform where I was pretty overjoyed to discover I could run multiple
  terms on a single console.  And found it odd when people thought this
  was a huge innovation of Linux...

I'm not sure I have much that's extraordinarily interesting to say about
MiNT, but I'd think that to be pretty on-topic for TUHS :-).
-- 
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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