40 years of UNIX
Wow.
How shall the Ohio LinuxFest 2009 celebrate this occasion.
I suggest that everyone checks out "A History of Free and Open Source - The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin" by
Dr. Peter Salus. It is published under a Creative Commons License on Groklaw.
If Dr. Salas' name sounds familar it is because he gave the "What Next" talk at the Ohio LinuxFest 2008:
Where next? It's over 60 years since the transistor was invented. It's 25 years since rms launched the Gnu Project. Next year, the Net, UNIX and Linus Torvalds will be 40. It's 30 years since Microsoft moved from New Mexico to Washington. And both the Web and Linux will reach majority in 2009. Is that it? Where are we going? What might the next decade bring? Peter H. Salus is an aged technological historian. Among his books are "A Quarter Century of UNIX," "Casting the Net," and (most recently) "The Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin."