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30 years of GNU

30 years of GNU

Posted Sep 30, 2013 9:19 UTC (Mon) by glaesera (subscriber, #91429)
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

My background are Commodore- homecomputers, I used from the age of 12, Amiga-OS was quite UNIX-like already, being a Windows- guy was skipped then in order to continue computing with Linux.
The first distribution I used privately was some RedHat-derivative.
Since Debian 3.1 'Sarge', when kernel 2.4 was the default, I use Debian.
Now it seems that not every Debian-user needs to be a developer, but a better bug-reporting-culture would be highly appreciated. There is currently work in progress to make reporting bugs more easy.
I think there is a danger of a pure Linux- monoculture. This would be equally dangerous as the Windows-monoculture was. Debian provides a port of the distribution to the FreeBSD-kernel already and Hurd/mach also seems to make good progress.
Diversity is very positive and it is necessary.


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