"Despite the consensus among academics at the time that computer science was essentially an oxymoron..."
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Even in the mid twentieth century it was clear that computers would change the world; they could execute complex mathematical operations near-instantly without error.
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"Ultimately, Multics development was scrapped by Bell Labs in 1969"
"This new operating system would later be named Unix — phonetically, 'eunuchs' — for being a castrated Multics."
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The "eunuchs" homonym is interesting and ironic but neither of the three sources on Wikipedia for the "Unics" name being related to "eunuchs" mentions "eunuchs" at all.
+ As far as I know, "Unics" was only a pun on "Multics" in terms of UNIX not yet being multiplexed, and the "EUNUCHS" puns came from outside the UNIX team - not really official as the blackpaper suggests.
+ See ast's "Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5", "Emasculated Multics is Unics".
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"GNU was ultimately completed in 1991 with Linus Torvalds' development of the Linux kernel"
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Linus's Linux was not the first attempt at a Free kernel.
+ See the GNU HURD, which was originally intended to be the final puzzle piece to the complete GNU system.
+ The HURD didn't catch on though and now Linux is generally the standard Free kernel used in Free operating system stacks.
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"Today, nearly the entirety of the Web runs on GNU/Linux"
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A technicality: it's a bit better to say "GNU+Linux" to communicate that one is running a GNU environment on top of the Linux kernel, in the same way one can run "GNU+FreeBSD" (a GNU system on top of FreeBSD).
+ This can disambiguate discussions of "GNU+Linux" (an operating system) from "GNU" (an organization or its operating environment) and "Linux" (a kernel).
+ But this is totally insignificant and pedantic to the point where it's meme fodder. Who cares.
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"almost every personal computing device in the world runs on Android, which is built on the Linux kernel"
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It should be noted that Android is Google capital.
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+The rest of the paper is of a more social aspect of which I don't believe I have much to say, just that I agree with it.
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