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by alistairSH 368 days ago
RedHat's IPO. Seemed like as good a date as any to anchor "when Linux went mainstream". I'm sure there are other dates that are arguably at least as good here.
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arp242 368 days ago
Ah right, that roughly tracks. Just wasn't obvious where "August 1999" came from.

Kind of amazing timeline in hindsight by the way; Linux was "only" 8 years old at that point.

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