There is a future
Posted by: Gustavo Felisberto in Ciência/Tecnologia, Gentoo, Geral, PolíticaIn the last few days I have managed to spend some time (not as much as I would like) sitting and thinking about the last 10 years of linux. It was in the beggining of the 1995 summer that i first saw a Unix system (before that I was a TOS user) . The beggining of my relation was a bit hard. I had to use a VT220 terminal to connect to a AIX machine so I always tought that it was a step back from my GEM box. Shure i knew that some 40 persons where using it, but it was 80×24 characters…..
After some months I got the oprtunity to work with a DEC3000 workstation with a HUGE 21″ monitor…. I had netscape, a word processor and a spreadsheet. I was hooked!!! Shure I had the same in the Atari but could only run one App at a time. There was windows 95…. but you could just stare at the box and it would crash on it’s own.
I got mysqlf a second hand 486 and installed Slackware. Time went on and there came RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, FreeBSD, Debian again….. And then one happy day I heard that there was a Linux distro with a Ports like system…. I just HAD to install it.
I used it, abused it and gave my first help to the Gentoo world after that some more helps here and there untill becoming a full member of the Gentoo comunity.
In the last months I have not helped alot. Life is like that, tends to get all your time. But summer is coming… and with summer… bug closing season is open 
But why am I writting this? What is the big message? The message is a word about the future. Linux is here. Linux isn’t just kicking…. It is a huge explosion. It is so big that we that are making the revolution dont even get a grasp of it.
This is a word to all that make free applications for linux, that help users, those that spread the word:
“We will help shape the world of tomorow.”
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