Skills to save unix/linux?

[HariyaWaliaya]

What specific skills should I focus on acquiring in order to contribute to the efforts aimed at safeguarding Unix/Linux systems from the potential Y2K38 bug?

[HariyaWaliaya]

I grew up using Linux through University starting in 92, they were absolutely the golden years for the birth of what we now know as the internet. Using great little apps like ytalk, elm, trn, pine, mutt, and ofcourse Wordstar and Emacs, I think the shell was tcsh, and you practically lived on the command line. Frankly, it was wonderful, partly because it hadn't been commercialised yet, and you could have real communications with people across the world in other educational institutions, and just lose yourself in a world that doesn't really exist any more. The chatrandom echat Comp Sci lab was home away from home.