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One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...

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