you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu)... 1991 In June, I graduated from Alta High School and Jordan Technical Center in Sandy, Utah
in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" (Andrew Tanenbaum [creator of Minix] to Linus Torvalds) Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum) 1992 “Linux is obsolete” I started my very first computer job as the 'Computer Guy' at a medical transcription company.
was called "Red Hat Commercial Linux" with a code name of “Mother's Day”. 1995 Nothing interesting happened to me in the technical world. The first official public release (0.6.2) of the Apache server was made in April.
1998 The Mozilla project project was founded in order to create a next-generation internet suite for Netscape. At my first serious programming job, I discovered Red Hat Linux version 5.2. Used Apollo (the RHL codename) for more than a year.
property sense to everything it touches..." 2001 A documentary about the free and open source software community is released. Starring such hacktivists as Linus Torvalds, RMS, Eric Raymond and Michael Tiemann. Laid off in May when the technology bubble burst, I spent a month job hunting in New Zealand. I returned in July and enrolled in college.
Core while attending Utah Valley State College (it wasn't yet a University) during a Linux 1050 class. Novell acquires SUSE Linux for $210 million. Was billed as the 'Rebirth of Novell' by many. Glenn Otis Brown announces version 2.0 of Creative Commons Licensing
nations by allowing a person to obtain an XO laptop by buying two devices: one for the purchaser and the other being sent to a developing nation. The first Utah Open Source Conference is held. The Open Source Technology Center at Novell hosts over 200 attendees and 35+ presentations.
that Open Source can work in business. Reporting $1.13 Billion in revenue for 2011 Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. is created to advance the company’s investment in openness – including interoperability, open standards and open source. Microsoft also contributed 688 commits (1%) to the Linux Kernel in 2011.