Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary
On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from "clienteng" over to the "website" division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.That, uh, didn't happen.
That announcement was the opening topic on the
second-ever LWN.net Weekly Edition as well.
Posted Jan 23, 2023 20:55 UTC (Mon)
by james (subscriber, #1325)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 3:50 UTC (Tue)
by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)
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Yeah I was thinking the same. Reading these news about changes in 2.1.80 reminded me these good old days when many of us were running 2.1 in production because it included knfsd which allowed to recycle old hardware and turn it into a very fast local file server capable of saturating a 100 Mbps NIC. I did this at my first job with a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB RAM, it was awesome, it quickly became the development server for the whole team! Good luck trying to start /sbin/init with 6.2-rc on such a machine nowadays!
Posted Jan 23, 2023 21:59 UTC (Mon)
by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
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I love this text from the first LWN Weekly Edition.
Posted Jan 24, 2023 8:45 UTC (Tue)
by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238)
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There was also an article on Linux in SunWorld Online. It is reasonably complementary, though it does focus a bit on limitations. "Linux isn't Solaris". Well, we knew that, but not everybody thinks it's a disadvantage.
Posted Jan 24, 2023 10:35 UTC (Tue)
by jem (subscriber, #24231)
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The style of these early LWN issues is somewhat reminiscent of what the first issues of Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia looked like.
Posted Jan 24, 2023 14:57 UTC (Tue)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 14:42 UTC (Tue)
by jani (subscriber, #74547)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 15:00 UTC (Tue)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 15:21 UTC (Tue)
by jani (subscriber, #74547)
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Posted Jan 26, 2023 22:51 UTC (Thu)
by claude.bing (subscriber, #127877)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 17:25 UTC (Tue)
by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
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Something need to be said about not breaking backward compatibility.
Posted Jan 24, 2023 21:41 UTC (Tue)
by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
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Posted Jan 24, 2023 21:43 UTC (Tue)
by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
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Posted Jan 25, 2023 10:50 UTC (Wed)
by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Posted Jan 25, 2023 12:34 UTC (Wed)
by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
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Posted Jan 25, 2023 12:47 UTC (Wed)
by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
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So, um, happy belated birthday, LWN.net!
Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary
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Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)
The best bet for folks looking for multiprocessor screamer systems is to wait until Spring or so when the "deschutes" (400 MHz Pentium II) comes out;
Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)
Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)
Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)
Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary
We used to do a "this week in history" section, many years ago, but kind of ran out of time and energy to keep it up. Perhaps it's time to revisit that...
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Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary
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Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary