[email protected] wrote: > As far as writing our own, I don't think one person could produce > a system eqivalent to modern os's in a lifetime even if they > had all the prerequsite skills to do so. > > I doubt that anyone could duplicate Linus's accomplishment today > in the time frame that he did;ie, use an existing kernel as > guideline and write an equivalent or better one.
Linus' initial effort was about 10K lines in a year. The rest has been added on over the years. You are comparing what he did originally with 20 years of upgrades. Yes, I think a lot of people could turn out 10K lines of good code in a year. Getting others to help was the real genius. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
