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Unix Pioneer Ken Thompson Declares He is Switching From Mac To Linux


The closing keynote on the SCaLE 20x convention was delivered by 80-year-old Ken Thompson (co-creator of Unix, Plan9, UTF8, and the Go programming language).

Slashdot reader motang shared Thompson’s reply to a query on the finish about what working system he makes use of right now:


I’ve, for many of my life — as a result of I used to be form of born into it — run Apple.

Now just lately, which means throughout the final 5 years, I’ve grow to be an increasing number of depressed, and what Apple is doing to one thing that ought to mean you can work is simply atrocious. However they’re taking loads of house and time to do it, so it is okay.

And I’ve come, throughout the final month or two, to say, though I’ve invested, , a zillion years in Apple — I am throwing it away.

And I will Linux. To Raspbian particularly.

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