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On 09/08/12 02:57 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> Jason A. Donenfeld posted on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:33:02 +0200 as |
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> excerpted: |
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> Consider... five years ago was 2007. Android hadn't been released |
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> yet at this point in 2007 (November, according to the LWN 2007 |
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> timeline I'm looking at [1]). Nokia releases the N800. KDE4 was |
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> yet to come out (January, 2008) altho the PR machine had been in |
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> full swing for awhile. Gnome3 was still a ways out. GPLv3 is |
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> released and Bruce Perens among others predicts Linus and Linux |
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> will switch after kicking and screaming for a couple years. Kernel |
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> 2.6.20-2.6.23. Con Colivas quits the kernel, but eventually |
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> releases the brainfuck scheduler without attempting a mainline |
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> merge. The MS/Novell agreement and controversy. AMD announces |
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> that it is opening up ATI graphics documentation. SCO files for |
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> chapter 11 (which just now it's trying to convert to chapter 7) |
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> bankruptcy. One- laptop-per-child XO goes into mass production. |
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> SAMBA gets access to the MS protocol docs... |
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Yep, those were the days; it's been all down hill from there.. ;P |
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