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krutzger
With Cron weakly taking a break, this could not have come at a better time!
pselbert
There was a promo for this on the most recent changelog. The term “heroes” seems a bit hyperbolic, but I’m intrigued.
hamandcheese
I just started listening. The production quality is far above what I was expecting from a podcast! Enjoying it so far.
walshemj
Why doing a podcast with a single presenter and getting BBC quality audio isn't that hard these day a decent 2x2 audio interface and some decent mics Shure Sm58's will do quite well with your preferred DAW which will often have presets for podcasts.
webreac
The early releases of Linux were on floppy disks. More than 20 disks. You could not compile the kernel while X was running unless you had at least 8 Mb. I was the lucky owner of a 486dx33 with 16 Mb.
DrScump 

  More than 20 disks.
Hence, the copyfest era -- meetings where people brought machines and blank floppies to spread the gospel.
ridiculous_fish
Linux required a hardware FPU, which the 030 Mac IIsi did not have. I bought and installed a daughterboard that provided a math coprocessor, allowing me to install Linux on my Mac, circa mid 90s.
pjmlp
My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0, bought during 1995 Summer.

It came on a CD-ROM, whose contents I had to copy into the hard disk and start the installation from there, because IDE CD-ROM drives were mostly unsupported.

My monitor was 1024x768, but X could not do higher than 800x600 with my card.

Nowadays I have Ubuntu on my travel laptop, and still have hardware acceleration issues with its Brazos GPU.

[dead] s0mesayitsluck
inconsistent file naming.

no obvious download button.

the "previous episodes" and the "part one & part two" episodes are the same episodes with different links, menu paths.

electricslpnsld
Listening to episode 1, overall pretty good. I was surprised to hear no mention of NeXT, especially given some of the focus on post-Jobs-return Apple.
ghaff
I was discussing the lead in with a colleague last week. There are just so many threads to how we arrived at where we are today simply in terms of operating systems. You could probably have a whole podcast series on that alone. I once helped write an expert witness report that tried to bring in all the AT&T, BSD, Unix Wars, etc. threads and it was hard to keep it comprehensible. Keeping it around Microsoft and Apple in their modern forms probably makes it more approachable for a broader audience.
pjmlp
While I agree with the constraints, it kind of distorts the past for those too young to have lived through it.
holmberd
Added, looking forward to giving it a listen.