http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html
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> There is no offense for linux to start as a terminal emulator.
> And Linus confirms that. And this fact doesn't contradict with
> your point (" wanting to try out the protected mode features
> of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't support").
> Why do you want to reject this terminal emulator origins?
I don't want to reject it, it just sounds like a bit of a slam, since
I generally don't hear much good about linux on lists such as this.
Without linux I wouldn't have ever had a chance to really learn unix,
would have never had a reason to check out plan9 and even have an iota
of understanding about why it's such a great evolution over the
original unix. I know linux isn't the best but it sure gets picked on
a lot, especially around these groups.
Us kids (well, I'm 31 today, but I still feel like a kid around these
circles) never got to grow up with unix and linux let us learn, so it
still has a place near my heart, warts, cancerous growths and all ;-)
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burton samograd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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