From: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] [OT?] 1993 'Sourceware' paper anniversary. What was right & any surprises?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:01:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C84CDF4C-28C5-41F3-B144-8CA02B8C8E00@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
I’ve only recently stumbled across this paper.
It gives the answer to one question I’ve had:
Why did Linux become more popular than everything that came before it?
There were surprises.
The “Dot Boom” then “Dot Bust” along with Y2K.
Microsoft developed an architecture, Active Directory, designed to support Enterprise scale deployments.
Everything Good in A.D. is Old (LDAP, Kerberos, DNS)
everything badly done is New (replicated DB’s & ???).
Other surprises is the rise of “Internet Scale” datacentres, Social Media and Smartphones & Tablets.
All of which are dominated by Linux or Unix derived solutions.
And Virtual Machines on Intel.
IA-64 was in the far future :(
And ARM CPU’s made a big comeback.
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The Sourceware Operating System Proposal
9 November 1993
Revision: 1.8
<https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/unix/srcos.html>
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next reply other threads:[~2022-11-09 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-09 22:01 steve jenkin [this message]
2022-11-09 22:16 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-09 22:24 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-09 22:51 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-11-10 0:47 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-11-10 0:54 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-11-10 1:28 ` David Arnold
2022-11-10 6:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-10 9:12 ` David Arnold
2022-11-10 13:27 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-11-10 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-10 1:42 ` Larry McVoy
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