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What's the oldest #Linux distro you've used? What's your story using it? For me, it was Red Hat Linux 6 in 1999. I purchased it from the software aisle for $40 at Stokes Brothers in Logan, Utah when my wife was going to school. I booted off the live CD and played around with it a bit. Seeing the installation icon on the desktop, I thought it would install like other software onto my Windows 98 PC. Of course, it wiped the boot loader and the Windows OS. I learned the value of backups that day.
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 @atoponce The oldest I can remember was RedHat 3 in the 90s. At the time I was just trying it as something "new” and "different.” @ademalsasa Slackware pre version 1, with kernel pre version 1 as well -- it was simply 'Slackware', and the kernel was squeaking close to 1.0 It's been a minute, I may have some detail askance and awry .. "Grover’s algorithm is an elegant intellectual construction. Unfortunately our analysis indicates that it will remain so for the foreseeable future." #Quantum #QuantumComputers #QuantumComputing #Crypto #Cryptography
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# apt update @atoponce Critical hit on the opponent, "Linux". His trainer, Linus, is SHOCKED! I would have picked @illumosorg over #FreeBSD as the successor to the Unix development tree. The AT&T lawsuit required all BSD code to be written from scratch, thus 4.4BSD-Lite. FreeBSD is no more "Unix" than GNU/Linux. Solaris software however was mostly relicensed. This is worth sharing. It's an animated GIF where every frame is a valid QR code that leads to the "Never Gonna Give You Up" rickroll. That's kind of amazing.
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@atoponce This boggles the mind, but explaining it beforehand kind of takes all the fun out of rickrolling. 😉 We've got: - Google Chrome  |
@atoponce guessing it's thinking like version numbers such as for applications eg python 3.14 but still the primary context should be normal numbers! I think all AI models are doing this from what I've been googling
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@atoponce not that I want to be defending AI or anything, but this is kinda like calling a hammer garbage because it cannot drive in screws. You’re obviously not using it for what it was designed for. Arithmetic is not it.
Generative AI does some stuff well. Making shit up being one of its absolute strengths 👍 use it for nonsense and you have a great tool right there