I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

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    It was free, I could not afford a Sun workstation and Minix had problems, so when this Finnish guy wrote in Usenet that he was working on a free kernel/OS, it was cool!

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        The biggest bonus to the democratic world stems from just one individual. And the rest of the world believing in his idea.

        So never say that just you cannot make a difference in this world.

        Because you can!

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      386BSD was a thing back then too, but there was the AT&T lawsuit that scared everyone away. That gave Linux an opportunity.