by Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Aug 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Joerg wrote:
> JeffM wrote:
>>> Rich Grise wrote:
>>>> [...]Skype looks pretty interesting
>>>> [...]they don't have a Slackware package
>>>> and I didn't see any links to source where I can compile it here.
>>>> Anybody heard of either of those anywhere?
>>>>
>> Joerg wrote:
>>> What's slackware? Some kind of trousers?
>>> <duck and run ...>
>>
>> Actually, it's the oldest extant distro.
>>
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:t01sMEAV2jYJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions+1993-08+1994-*-*+1993-07+text+text+1995.*.*+without.cost+text+First.Public.Release+text+Debian.Project+SuSE.Linux+Slackware+text+text+Red.Hat.Linux
>>
>>
>> I've wondered what the world would be like
>> if a big rock had fallen out of the sky and
>> impacted the Redmond campus during business hours ~April 1, 1995
>> (before W95 and just before Red Hat's release).
>
>
> Probably IBM would then still be in that biz because there wouldn't have
> been Senor Gates eating their lunch.
>
OS/2 2.0 came out in April, 1992. A spectacular technical
success--multithreaded 32-bit OS, fully object-oriented GUI, a beautiful
object model (SOM)...I could go on...but a stupid marketing failure. I
still use OS/2 at least a few times a week, and I still love it.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
