My Lightning Talk from All Things Open 2016: 25 years of Linux in 5 minutes
 

My Lightning Talk from ATO 2016 has been posted.

25 years of Linux in 5 minutes


Feedback and comments are welcome.

--jeremy

Hi Jeremy.

What is 'ATO'?

"All things open"

https://allthingsopen.org/

Nicely done.

I see, thank you.

Very nice!! thanks for sharing!

It was nice to get more acquainted with Linux roots but also to get more acquainted in order to better appreciate the one we (at least i) only know as Jeremy here! :)

-founder of LinuxQuestions.org
-does podcast with 3 co-presenters on BadVoltage
-community moderator at opensource.com
-on board of Linux Fund.

Phew!

Thanks for the link
 

Thanks for the video link, that was a lot to cover in 5 mins. And thanks also for maintaining this site. I've more of a lurker than a poster, and I appreciate the info available here.

Very interesting indeed. Many thanks for the video!

Very nice presentation.

Nice Jeremy.

And thanks for answering that question I wondered about... the "2" to "3" version.
LOL!

You may wish to check out Bad Voltage. It is a really well-done podcast with what is a missing ingredient in many tech podcasts--laughter.

A few people have contacted me asking for the slides from this talk. I've added them to the first post.

--jeremy

Thanks, that was awesome and filled in some stuff I'd been wondering about :)
What type is your watch btw?
Cheers!

A Moto 360 Gen 2:
https://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/20...twatch-review/

--jeremy

I hate analogue watches.

Very interesting, thanks again!

Linux Is Awesome
 

A presentation very well done!

Thanks for the history lesson. Cool stuff.

Thanks..!

My Lightning Talk from All Things Open 2016: 25 years of Linux in 5 minutes
 

Nice job! :cool:

Your video just made me realise how long I've been into linux and computers for that matter...

Its seems like yesterday that we were using tin cans with a bit of string between to pretend to have our own phone.. Now that string reaches around the world...

I'm sure it was before 92' that I downloaded a copy of what became linux, from the local BBS.. But my memory has been letting me down in recent times..

The file I had was just a basic kernel and using unix commands, worked well... I had my first 386..

Since then I have been hooked, fried many brain cells and acquired many frustrating nights, I wouldn't trade the experience for anything...

As for LinuxQuestions.org, same same.. Been a great site too..

Thank you and all the people involved with LQ and Linux too...

a little history
 

I've been following you and your site for years. It was good to see you in the videos. The website is great, and I
appreciate the accuracy of info available to all.
I know a lot of hard work goes on here, and I just thought I'd take a longtime fan's point of view.. The best..

What did he say?
 

Is there a brief, written summation of this Lightning Talk?

Thanx.

The slide deck used in the presentation is attached to the first post.

--jeremy

Enjoyable Video
 

Enjoyed the video, thanks for posting.

Thanks buddy :).

I loved it, thanks!

RE:
 

This is just amazing! Your speech thrills everyone! I am impressed by your conversation skills!

APPRECIATION from an old DOS amateur
 

Thank you so much for putting your God given gifts so generously to a truly great human endeavour.. From my experience people generally find at some point they have to stand up against one or more of the big three 'isms' of our time: Naturalism, Secularism and Commercialism..

Naturalism dominates science and education to the point of materialist reductionism, Secularism dominates social behaviour to the point of extreme political correctness and Commercialism dominates trade to the point of people becoming a commodity to be owned instead of a customer to be served..

They all have their place and are valid to a degree.. its the 'degree' which is the problem! When they start to dominate and set the agenda for everyone.. that's when we all need people like you to help us get on our feet and move to a better place..

Linux us a better place.. Thanks

Enjoyed the video, thank you

thanks very interesting video

Excellent
 

I know this has been out since 2016, but I just found and watched it. Nicely done Jeremy!

Thank you very much for the effort seen watching this video. I used to be an Electronics professor and still keep CD of RH
1995 distro. Since today I make my 69 birthday it sounds to me like a special gift. No more to say but thanks....
Francisco Otero

Thank You Jeremy Nice job done in your presentation,

Thanks for sharing .

Noice
 

Hello Jeremy and other viewers,

Really interesting video, it goes fast, but so does Linux : I have an old, small, i386 based, single core Pentium D PC on which I have implemented Lubuntu (light Ubuntu) 16.04.3, and it runs like hell !

And another thing : Windows really sucks : I implemented an old WiFi card on a friend's 32-bit Windows 7 "Ultimate" PC, and I really didn't understand why they (Windows) make everything so "unfindable" and complicated, with all these possibilities of help and so on . This Dual core PC now still runs that Windows, it was a real nightmare to get it to work (finding the correct driver software), but I am glad that I am back at my "old" little PC running my (a little outdated but still supported Long Time Service) Lubuntu version of Linux .

But I am taking in too much space now : Job WELL DONE Jeremy !!!

Henk Vanneste,
Ghent, Belgium.

History of Linux in 5 minutes.
 

I like it!.

Please 5 more minutes dedicated to what will be linux after Linus Torvalds leave heading the kernel development????

Regards

OUTSTANDING
 

Jeremy,

I'm a retired Navy Chief(DPC) data processor. I just saw your 5min video of Linux History! OUTSTANDING shipmate!!! Outstanding!

Thanks for the rehash of Items from my past. I started out on IBM mainframe at USL (lafayette, la.) in 1977. 2 years later i was in the Navy.
Would tell you a few interesting things from my Navy career but most of the time I had a TOP SECRET clearence and don't talk about it.

Thanks again, and thanks for LinuxQuestions.org

cajunchief

Received the above in an email......

So now I have. :)

Been watching/reading about Linux since 1994, (my first computer course - DOS 2.2), but didn't really get around to using it until 1999, when I finally got my first adequate computer that could run it, been using it ever since as my primary OS, (I occasionally run BSD too).

Nice to put a face to you Jeremy, & thanks for everything you do, especially running LQ.

I hadn't seen this. Very cool bits of history, thanks!

My first Linux install was DOSLINUX (a slack derivative that was booted into straight from DOS into a loop device), I think in 1995. Starting installing it straight to a second HDD not long after. I am fairly familiar with the history, but this talk covers a lot of the milestones in a very short period of time. Thanks! (Just saw this from an email i get from the site)

I wonder if there is a similar timeline for Unix-type OSes in general...