Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The First 8 Commands Every New User Should Learn Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 13:34:23 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <10egfns$mkr3$1@dont-email.me> <10ekkb3$1pge1$7@dont-email.me> <10enc8m$2hkmh$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PuqxPNQKCukaOKGolTUY1QdC/1qNBAYuc1ckkDkeAnqDjLC7Ar X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:C0xp8Ay27HxeNMxNfWqpfo7xwfk= sha256:pKNlj7K/8I7H5Z8qws8JAdNdn4f9yIZQEnwKJOiNT5M= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77111 On 2025-11-08 13:26, Diego Garcia wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 12:15:18 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 08/11/2025 11:56, Diego Garcia wrote: >>> Linux was/is made >>> by and for programmers. >> >> You sure about that? >> AFAICR Linus just decided Unix was too expensive and DOS was too crap. >> > > I wasn't around back then but I believe that Torvalds began > Linux as a self-study project during graduate school in Finland. > Basically he wanted to explore memory management, context switching, > etc. on the latest (at that time) processors. > > But whatever, it is quite certain that the contributors which > Linux eventually attracted were not motivated by a desire to > create a dummified Windows/Apple clone. They certainly are not motivated by their software only been used by other programmers. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;