Stacey Campbell on Nostr: Trying to remember my Unix-ey/Linux experience timeline, it has gone roughly ...

Trying to remember my Unix-ey/Linux experience timeline, it has gone roughly something like:

- Eunice on a VMS machine around 1985
- BSD on some sort of a mini hidden in a machine room around 1986
- System V on a DEC VAX at HCR in Toronto 1988
- SCO Unix (System V) on IBM PC clone hardware at SCO 1989
- Solaris on various Sun boxes at Sun in Mountain View 1994
- Red Hat at home around 1996
- Cygwin around 2000
- Various Linux distros through 2008
- Debian around 2010
- Fedora 2012-2024
- Ubuntu on the home server 2018
- WSL 1 on ye olde laptop
- Debian on ye olde laptop 2025

40 years!

Funny thing is emacs has always taken at least 5 seconds to start no matter the OS and hardware.