Linux evolved in a complete... by Eric S. Raymond, an American Author

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“Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.”

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Name: Eric S. Raymond

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 4, 1957

Profession: Author

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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

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The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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