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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 12:31 PM
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Happy birthday, Linux!
For it was twenty years ago today that Linus posted the following on comp.os.minix:





The Story of Linux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocq6_3-nEw (3:39)
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-11 05:54 AM
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1. I couldn't imagine using anything other than linux of one of the many flavors
right now Ubuntu is my fav, tomorrow who knows but I do know it'll be linux
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-26-11 04:57 PM
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2. I'm not a fan of Unity and Gnome 3 is a disaster
so I'm still on 10.04 LTS. But whatever direction I take in the future it will likely be Linux and most likely remaining within the Debian family, Ubuntu, Mint,
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