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RT @adymitruk@twitter.com
I'm a happy Linux desktop user for over 10 years.
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@derkern I am a UNIX desktop user since 1990 (SunTools, Apollo/Siemens, Solaris/X11,..., Linux, MacOS X)
With some forced Windows interspersals...
@PeterSommerlad @derkern Well you've got me beat by about 5 years! I've been using #Debian as my primary desktop OS since about 1995. Some brief stints with BSDs in there but not much. Occasionally used #SunOS, #BSDi, and #MacOS at work during that timeframe, but the majority of my work hours during that time have also been under #Debian.
I also run it on my #RaspberryPi units and on my servers.
I hadn't heard of Apollo/Siemens - had to look it up. Interesting!
@PeterSommerlad @derkern Ahh! Well, if you use a vt510 to access your Unix server, I guess that should count, since that's all the desktop people typically had there eh? I suppose a DOS/Windows/Linux terminal emulator is a bit more gray...
Anyhow, I really enjoy stories of #Unix #history and I'd enjoy hearing about those from you. I wrote a bit on those topics at https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10051-a-mystery-of-unix-history and https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10417-the-pc-internet-revolution-in-rural-america (the latter thanks to this prompt https://mastodon.online/@szczezuja/108902027541781265 from @szczezuja )
well I taught UNIX for Nixdorf with their own terminal hardware, AIX i accessed via terminal emulation on a PC iirc, and I used VT100(original) connected to a PDP-11 at the Luftwaffe programming center, where i was drafted to after graduating from university (instead of being drafted before uni).
did you read Brian Kernighans Unix memories?
@PeterSommerlad @derkern @szczezuja I literally have a copy of #Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" sitting on my desk in my to-read stack, one which sadly seems to be growing faster than it is shrinking! Thanks for sharing; those are names I recognize (and interesting being drafted to do programming!)
I was stuck when I visited the computing history museum at #BletchleyPark how different computing hardware was in US vs. Europe until the 90s. A lot of stuff there I'd never heard of.