From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 17379 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2022 22:04:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Nov 2022 22:04:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC9940CA7; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:03:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lists.tip.net.au (lists.tip.net.au [203.10.76.3]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84AB140131 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:03:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (219-90-191-162.ip.adam.com.au [219.90.191.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.tip.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4N6zVb4jmDz8smh; Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:03:02 +1100 (AEDT) From: steve jenkin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.21\)) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:01:42 +1100 Message-Id: To: TUHS X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.21) Message-ID-Hash: AGKEX74OCBW5RJHUBMZOIQ5SBIDW2LMO X-Message-ID-Hash: AGKEX74OCBW5RJHUBMZOIQ5SBIDW2LMO X-MailFrom: sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] [OT?] 1993 'Sourceware' paper anniversary. What was right & any surprises? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: I=E2=80=99ve only recently stumbled across this paper. It gives the answer to one question I=E2=80=99ve had: Why did Linux become more popular than everything that came = before it? There were surprises. The =E2=80=9CDot Boom=E2=80=9D then =E2=80=9CDot Bust=E2=80=9D 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=E2=80=99s & ???). Other surprises is the rise of =E2=80=9CInternet Scale=E2=80=9D = 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=E2=80=99s made a big comeback. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Sourceware Operating System Proposal 9 November 1993=20 Revision: 1.8 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D -- Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design=20 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin