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		jaresh on Oct 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What was being a software developer like a... I remember loading Linux from 200 little floppies and was absolutely thrilled to see it boot up.

bombcar on Oct 31, 2022 [–]

Especially since Linux at that time would let you do things that would cost many thousands of dollars to do with other operating systems. Samba on Linux as a fileserver for Windows clients was probably the main gateway for millions of future Linux sysadmins.

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