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The early days of Linux (2023)
days of Linux My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux is now a global success, but its beginnings were rather more humble.
After a while, he had drivers for the keyboard and the serial port, emulation of VT100 terminal escape sequences for the screen, and could use it to dial via a modem to the university to read Usenet from home. The next year, SLS morphed into Slackware, which inspired Ian Murdock to start Debian in 1993, in order to explore a more community-based development structure. A couple of years later, he spent days playing Quake, ostensibly to stress-test kernel memory management, although that was with a newer PC.
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