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by fezfight 1401 days ago
FOSS is great because great people supported it even when it did have, figuratively speaking, a big fan.
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frostwarrior 1401 days ago
Actually that's the opposite.

Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes running commercial Unix

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fezfight 1401 days ago
I miss those days. I was quite young. Those IBM PC clones still look like the future to me. Heh. Cheers
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