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Ubuntu's 1971 bugs - jkl - 05-11-2018
Hilarious:
Quote:Your brand new Ubuntu 18.10 has /bin and /usr/bin cause one specific system in 1971-1973 ran out of disk space on one of these 2.5MB fixed disk drives.
Full thread on Twitter.
RE: Ubuntu's 1971 bugs - acg - 05-11-2018
You described it pretty well, hilarious. I gave a talk about directories hierarchy in Linux two years ago; this would've been an interesting fact to mention back then.