Linus Torvalds Celebrates 20 Years of Windows 3.11 With Linux 3.11-rc5 Launch 113
hypnosec writes "Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.11-rc5 yesterday wishing that it would have been a lovely coincidence if he were able to release final Linux 3.11 as on the exact same day 20 years ago Microsoft released Windows 3.11. 'Sadly, the numerology doesn't quite work out, and while releasing the final 3.11 today would be a lovely coincidence (Windows 3.11 was released twenty years ago today), it is not to be,' notes Torvalds in the release announcement."
And there's the difference (Score:3, Interesting)
If Linux was a proprietary OS like Windows, Marketing would have been so rabid for the idea that they would have successfully forced the premature release.
Re:I feel old (Score:5, Interesting)
Grab the microsoft entertainment pack and play some skifree.
No need!
http://ski.ihoc.net/ [ihoc.net]
It's been recompiled for modern Windows and it runs great under wine as well. It also works fine on the largest monitors you're likely to have.