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April 15: Titanic Sinks, Damn Small Linux Released
By April 15, 2013

1912 – The RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg at 11:40 pm (7:40 pm EST). Of course from that, over 1,500 lost their lives to the cold, dark water, when the ship took the immortal dive. The ship had a passenger manifest of 2,223. The wreck was finally discovered on September 1st, 1985. 2005 – It was the release of the Damn Small Linux program, a Linux distribution that was designed to take up as little drive space as possible. John Andrews – DSL’s developer – Never allowed the ISO to go past 50 MB in size. You would be able to put DSL onto a CD or USB drive if needed. You can get the DSL ISO to install here ...

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February 10: “Linux is Obsolete” Thread Ends
By February 10, 2013

1992 – Comp.os.minix was the location for famous thread “Linux is Dead”. 73 Posts went back and forthe before Bill Mitchell closes it.  Andy Tanenbaum (MINIX) started the thread and Linus Torvolds shot back. This is how the thread started out:Wikazine – Full show notes for February 10 I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven’t commented much on LINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but for what it is worth, I have a couple of comments now. As most of you know, for me MINIX is a hobby, something that I do in the evening when I get bored writing books and there are no major wars, revolutions, or senate hearings being televised ...

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November 24: Novell Owns UNIX, UNIXWare Over SCO Group
By November 23, 2012

Novell wins a pivitol case aganst the SCO Group in 2008.

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September 25: iWoz (From Computer Geek to Cult Icon)
By September 24, 2012

Day in Tech History for September 25th: Steve Wozniak’s book iWoz was released.

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August 25: Linus Torvolds Asks, “What Would You Like to See Most in Minix”
By August 24, 2012

Day in Technology History for August 25th – Linus torvolds starts the discussion that would eventually become Linux

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August 11: Red Hat Goes Public, Palm Released Palm Vx, Palm VIIx
By August 10, 2012

Daily rundown of Technology History for August 11th

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2011 Tech Year in Review Timeline
By December 22, 2011

Tech History timeline for 2011. From iPad to Kindle Fire. From Sony’s Anonymous attacks to AT&T – T-Mobile failed merger. Michael Arrington fired to Steve Jobs death.

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