In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chris Ahlstrom
<linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:19:35 -0400
<jYpGk.42793$XT1.19978@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Linux turns 17
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the
>>| subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to
>>| comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen
>>| years ago today.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-turns-17
>
> 17 years, and still only at 1% <guffaw>.
>
> Imagine that! A "hobbyist" project surviving 17 years under that shadow
> of Mordorsoft.
>
> Not only surviving... flourishing.
>
It's not dead; I'll give it that (and I hope it never
dies; AmigaOS is effectively out of the picture, for
example). Also, Linux is rather popular with server and
to a lesser extent mobiles (Symbian still being tops in
that department).
But Windows 95 had a far faster adoption rate, in 1995 or
thereabouts. Of course it had a little help from MS-DOS.
I'll admit to wondering as to Windows' rate of adoption
in the 1985 timeframe, when it first came out.
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Murphy was an optimist.
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