https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/tags/open-source/Recent content in Open-Source on Rik Kisnah - BlogHugoenMon, 17 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/early-linux-at-ntu/Mon, 17 Sep 2001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rik-kisnah.ai/posts/early-linux-at-ntu/The Linux Revolution Reaches NTU By September 2001, Linux was transitioning from hobbyist project to legitimate alternative to proprietary Unix systems. NTU, as a forward-thinking institution, started deploying Linux in labs. After years of expensive proprietary systems, here was an free, open operating system that actually worked. For students raised on Windows, encountering Linux was revelatory. The source code was available. You could modify it. You could understand how everything worked down to the kernel level.