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Re: [News] Linux Has A Birthday

On 2008-10-06, Chris Ahlstrom <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>   this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Linux turns 17
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict 
>>| Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago 
>>| today.  
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-turns-17
>
> 17 years, and still only at 1% <guffaw>.
>
> Imagine that!  A "hobbyist" project surviving 17 years under that shadow
> of Mordorsoft.
>
> Not only surviving... flourishing.

And at 17, the little boy, linux, has grown up and is preparing to put
grandpa Windows into a home.

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