Using Ubuntu since 1996?
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| Author | Content |
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| CoreyB Sep 20, 2011 5:36 PM EDT |
This guy was using Ubuntu 8 years before the first release? |
| fewt Sep 20, 2011 5:49 PM EDT |
Weren't we all? |
| tracyanne Sep 20, 2011 6:03 PM EDT |
I sent the following email. Sir, I really have only two question, Which version of Ubuntu Linux were you usig in 1996? And do you still have the install disks? as I am quite sure Mark Shuttleworth would like to have a copy for historical purposes. regards Tracy Anne Barlow |
| TxtEdMacs Sep 20, 2011 6:27 PM EDT |
A simpler explanation was that it was a simple error in converting from an Eastern lunar to a Western yearly dating system. A typographic error just seems too great a stretch. At least I hope so, wasn't the first Ubuntu release sometime around 2004 (or am I thinking of Firefox)? I thought I began using it around 2005 and on the second released version. |
| tracyanne Sep 20, 2011 7:06 PM EDT |
@txt, yeah, of course it will be a typo or some other mistake. For all we know he was a Linux user from 1996, |
| gus3 Sep 20, 2011 8:00 PM EDT |
But... but... but... Ubuntu is Linux! They are one and the same! |
| Jeff91 Sep 20, 2011 8:07 PM EDT |
LOL GUS3. Just made my night. ~Jeff |
| dinotrac Sep 21, 2011 2:51 AM EDT |
Guys -- A little research, please. The first release of Ubuntu came out in 1968. A year later, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan et al created a stripped-down copy of Ubuntu at Bell Labs and called it Unix. |
| mbaehrlxer Sep 21, 2011 4:29 AM EDT |
dinotrac: sure, and next you'll be telling us that dinosaurs have been running linux too. you are tracking what dinosaurs were doing, right? greetings, eMBee. |
| gus3 Sep 21, 2011 9:00 AM EDT |
Well, if a lawyer says it, it must be true. |
| jimbauwens Sep 21, 2011 9:19 AM EDT |
Wow, I didn't know that dino! Gee, doesn't that mean the BSD are based on Ubuntu, and are release the code under wrong License terms? Does that mean I can sue Apple? (I really had to laugh, so thanks :) |
| number6x Sep 21, 2011 10:56 AM EDT |
@eMBee:
Quoting:"dinotrac: sure, and next you'll be telling us that dinosaurs have been running linux too. you are tracking what dinosaurs were doing, right? Yes, Linux runs quite well on IBM Z machines. That's probably what shuttleworth developed it on back in '68. You should have heard the stoires Mark Shuttleworth, Bob Bemer and Grace Hopper used to tell! |
| gus3 Sep 21, 2011 11:07 AM EDT |
And Bob Metcalfe used Ubuntu for developing Ethernet. |
| tuxchick Sep 21, 2011 11:32 AM EDT |
Ubuntu is teh noob. I've been using Debian since the early 1970s. |
| dinotrac Sep 21, 2011 11:33 AM EDT |
PC-DOS (and MS-DOS) would have been a great OS if only Bill Gates had patterned after Ubuntu instead that inferior, feature-deprived Ubuntu knockoff they made over at Bell Labs. Wozniak actually wanted to run Ubuntu on the Apple II, but Jobs nixed it because it would make the hardware limitations of the machine so painfully obvious. |
| dinotrac Sep 21, 2011 11:35 AM EDT |
TC - And a good choice, too. Debian is one of the better Ubuntu-based distributions. Ubuntu developers graciously acknowledged the Debian team's nice work when they renamed the Ubuntu packages from ".bun" to ".deb" at the same time they changed their package manager from "oven" to "aptitude". |
| jdixon Sep 21, 2011 11:46 AM EDT |
> Ubuntu is teh noob. I've been using Debian since the early 1970s. I have it on usually reliable authority that Noah's onboard navigation system was running a pre-release version of Slackware. :) |
| dinotrac Sep 21, 2011 11:49 AM EDT |
@jdixon -- And you'll note, that Noah stayed afloat while everybody else took on water. My bet is their windows let the rain in. |
| gus3 Sep 21, 2011 12:31 PM EDT |
So.... Patrick Volkerding is Noah? |
| fewt Sep 21, 2011 1:03 PM EDT |
Anyone use 4.3Ubuntu? I heard a rumor that it was multiuser. |
| TxtEdMacs Sep 21, 2011 2:07 PM EDT |
[serious] tracyanne, The thread has expanded disproportionately on tickling our funny bones. However, I wonder have you received any response from the author explaining the blatant misstatement? Since this appeared in a non-tech publication, perhaps the assertion that too many equate Ubuntu == Linux is valid. But I cannot reconcile that with a person that began using Linux back in the mid-nineties. It would be interesting to learn the basis for this confusion, e.g. a printing or editorial error might be plausible. We see it all the time in tech and non-tech publications where the connection between the text (content) of articles are tenuously related to the column titles. [/serious] YBT |
| Koriel Sep 21, 2011 2:46 PM EDT |
Weren't we all using Slackbuntu back in 96? Im sure it did i remember using the DisUnity desktop which came on 20 floppys. New biblical epic coming out called The Greatest Story Ever Fabricated by K.Hess" starring Patrick Volkerding as Noah, Linus Torvalds as Jesus and Richard Stallman as Moses. With the tag line "Truly he was the son of Mark Shuttleworth" said in best John Wayne impression. For the younger readers who might not get the references see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059245/ |
| tuxchick Sep 21, 2011 2:47 PM EDT |
You all owe me a new keyboard and monitor. |
| fewt Sep 21, 2011 3:02 PM EDT |
Fuduntubuntu would not have been possible without Marks great inventions in 1968. For that I thank you. |
| lcafiero Sep 21, 2011 3:15 PM EDT |
Very funny, Koriel, and I hope the "kids" who weren't around at the time that film came out appreciate the assist. Thanks, YBT, for trying to bring back the discussion to TA's earlier missive. I, too, would be curious to see if she got a response. My take on this: The writer did the same thing I find myself doing occasionally -- running the '90s and the '00s together -- and his mainstream-press editor, who wouldn't know a Hardy Heron if it landed on his shoulder, didn't change it. I don't know what his excuse might be, but I blame age. Of course, the link to the on-line version of this story should have been changed by now, and the writer shouldn't have made the mistake in the first place. But there you have it. If you take out that error -- a damning one indeed -- the article is not too bad, and for something like this to appear in a mainstream media outlet (error notwithstanding) is pretty impressive. |
| tracyanne Sep 21, 2011 5:10 PM EDT |
@txt, no. The email was undelivered, and I'm not sure if the web form was either, it returned a error message. |
| lcafiero Sep 21, 2011 5:24 PM EDT |
True, tracyanne -- I just tried to do the same on the web form and got the same message. Pity. |
| Fettoosh Sep 21, 2011 5:24 PM EDT |
Quoting:no. The email was undelivered, and I'm not sure if the web form was either, it returned a error message. After reading the comments above, Does anyone blame the guy for deleting his e-mail account.? :-) |
| lcafiero Sep 21, 2011 5:36 PM EDT |
Fettoosh -- I can't speak for tracyanne, but I think she probably did the same thing I did. I went to the Manila Daily Standard's Web site and clicked on the "contact us" link. This brought up a form to fill out and a space for correspondence, which I filled out, wrote a note about the error in the article (with link) and hit "send." It should go to someone in the publication to route to whomever needs to see it rather than just bouncing. It wouldn't go directly to the writer from the main page's "contact us" link. But if it bounces, then this publication has bigger problems than this article. |
| Fettoosh Sep 21, 2011 6:15 PM EDT |
@lcafiero, I understand. I didn't intend for my comment to be taken seriously. |
| BernardSwiss Sep 21, 2011 6:51 PM EDT |
Maybe the just don't take comments from other parts of the world? |
| lcafiero Sep 22, 2011 2:14 AM EDT |
Ah. So noted, Fettoosh. My bad. I'll bring my sense of humor next time :-) BernardSwiss: Interesting observation, since neither tracyanne nor I are from the Philippines (though I would find it hard to believe that someone in the Philippines didn't notice that error). |
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