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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 19:39:42 UTC Bernie

   I still have this 2008 PC motherboard. The ASUS P5K was a popular Intel P35 mobo for Core 2 Duo processors.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_P35
   #retrocomputing

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 20:00:37 UTC Bernie

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     Inside the box, I find an even older Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 from 2006.

     All these motherboards have been running Linux exclusively. At my home, "the year of Linux on the desktop" had already happened in the mid 90s :linux:
     #retrocomputing #linux

   • Srevin Saju (srevinsaju@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 02:42:55 UTC Srevin Saju

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     @codewiz My Intel Core Duo 2 desktop still works! Wow, I suddenly feel so old.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 05:22:44 UTC Bernie

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki Every year, the relative share of GNU code in Linux distros seems to go down... at what point are we going to drop the GNU prefix?

   • 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 05:22:47 UTC 翠星石

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     @codewiz It will never be "the year of Linux on the desktop", as Linux is only a kernel and doesn't operate on its own.
     
     The year of the GNU/Linux desktop was 1995 or so.
   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 05:28:46 UTC Bernie

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki Perhaps it's a GNU system when it uses glibc...

     Would this make Alpine Linux a musl/Linux system? But it's still able to load binaries compiled against glibc...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 05:33:43 UTC Bernie

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     • mk8

     My friend @mk8 has a few PC motherboards on display in his office.