It all began in 1969 at Bell Labs (AT&T) when the masters Ritchie, Thompson and McIlroy gave us the "Great Way of Unix" to enlighten us. It began just for fun on a PDP7, it began just for the pleasure of making something simple just work.
I think the single greatest accomplishment of Unix technologies (besides making the world go round) is that 37 years later, Unix is still a lot of fun to hack. We now have (Open)Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, the BSD's variants and, of course, my favourite toy in the world, Linux to play with.
If you find yourself with no headspace due to the fact that you are locked in a system that cannot function because it relies on certain web browser in order for the actual kernel to function properly: set yourself free.
Grab a copy of Slackware or FreeBSD or Solaris and feel the power of a true multitasking & multiuser OS. I promise you, there's no going back after that. I remember back in 1996 my first contact with Slackware: it was a mind boggling experience. I couldn't believe the power that was being neglected to me by a certain Redmond company. Suddenly, I discovered myself with the ability to do anything (and I mean anything) with a computer. For instance, I could look at the code and teach myself programming, I felt the joy of a real graphic user interface totally independent of the kernel space and I could build a server that I could run for months!!! Don't like how your system works? No problem dude, change it in any way you feel!!! Need a "driver" for that fancy piece of hardware, okay, try and hack it yourself and then share it with the rest of us.
You will actually feel control coming back to you. Go wild and experiment, it's your system and it's your vision, not someone else's lame excuse for an operating system designed by a bunch of monkeys during a marketing brunch. Behold and embrace the gift of freedom. Show respect and be grateful to those who set the path before us: The Unix Masters, The GNU Project, BDFL Linus Torvalds, BDFL Patrick Volkerding and the Open Source Community all around the world.
Use the source, have fun, learn, and share.
I think the single greatest accomplishment of Unix technologies (besides making the world go round) is that 37 years later, Unix is still a lot of fun to hack. We now have (Open)Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, the BSD's variants and, of course, my favourite toy in the world, Linux to play with.
If you find yourself with no headspace due to the fact that you are locked in a system that cannot function because it relies on certain web browser in order for the actual kernel to function properly: set yourself free.
Grab a copy of Slackware or FreeBSD or Solaris and feel the power of a true multitasking & multiuser OS. I promise you, there's no going back after that. I remember back in 1996 my first contact with Slackware: it was a mind boggling experience. I couldn't believe the power that was being neglected to me by a certain Redmond company. Suddenly, I discovered myself with the ability to do anything (and I mean anything) with a computer. For instance, I could look at the code and teach myself programming, I felt the joy of a real graphic user interface totally independent of the kernel space and I could build a server that I could run for months!!! Don't like how your system works? No problem dude, change it in any way you feel!!! Need a "driver" for that fancy piece of hardware, okay, try and hack it yourself and then share it with the rest of us.
You will actually feel control coming back to you. Go wild and experiment, it's your system and it's your vision, not someone else's lame excuse for an operating system designed by a bunch of monkeys during a marketing brunch. Behold and embrace the gift of freedom. Show respect and be grateful to those who set the path before us: The Unix Masters, The GNU Project, BDFL Linus Torvalds, BDFL Patrick Volkerding and the Open Source Community all around the world.
Use the source, have fun, learn, and share.
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