That's a poor representation of the big smile I had on my face while reading this.
I've spent 25 years now "messing" with Linux. Installing over-the-air interactive TV Linux-based mpeg stream devices in central London-based TV channels. Managing web servers and compute clusters for US universities. Wrangling SANs and VMware together to create email services for education. Load balancers. Macs. Private compute environments on VMware for developers. Kubernetes clusters for what felt like a million microservices.
All the while, Unix has been there for me to hack on, mess with, debug, wrangle, chase down, curse, and praise.
It's an old, dependable friend now, but has lost none of its vigour. I imagine it will be there long after I'm gone, probably long after any of us are around.
Two things being decades old doesn’t mean they share the same situation. Not every concept is automatically obsolete after a few decades (COBOL definitely is though).
That's a poor representation of the big smile I had on my face while reading this.
I've spent 25 years now "messing" with Linux. Installing over-the-air interactive TV Linux-based mpeg stream devices in central London-based TV channels. Managing web servers and compute clusters for US universities. Wrangling SANs and VMware together to create email services for education. Load balancers. Macs. Private compute environments on VMware for developers. Kubernetes clusters for what felt like a million microservices.
All the while, Unix has been there for me to hack on, mess with, debug, wrangle, chase down, curse, and praise.
It's an old, dependable friend now, but has lost none of its vigour. I imagine it will be there long after I'm gone, probably long after any of us are around.