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Jon "maddog" Hall talks Unix and Linux history

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Jon maddog Hall presents a history of Unix and Linux from 1969 to 2019, highlighting key milestones and the people who built them.

Jon "maddog" Hall gives a brief history of the period of 1969 to 2019 with regard to 50 years of Unix and Internet advancement. Some of the high (and low) points of that period and its meaning to computer science of today. He calls for a celebration in the year 2019 of the women and men who made these advances possible. 2019 will be 50 years of Unix, 25 years of usable Linux, Linus Torvalds's 50 years old, 10 years since the start of the ideas to setup Linaro and more.

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What people say. Recommended as a well-told historical overview of Unix, Linux, and open-source operating systems.

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I remember this interview being well told: Jon Maddog Hall
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…d presentations from youtube as audio files and listen to those, including before falling asleep. Alan Kay, Woz interviews, Unix & GNU/Linux history, Xerox, etc. Sort by "> 20 minutes" and there are so many good things. Different presentations and videos I filter by > 20 mins. For example, the documentary revolution OS works fine with audio only. link to this video Linus on Linux link to this video John Maddog Hall on Linux link to this video I just look for interesting keywors like "git lecture" or "presentation" or "functional programming" or "lambda calculus" "silicon valley documentary / silicon valley" . There's a lot of stuff, and the best thing with lectures and presentations is there is no product placement and…
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