> >>> By the time Linus "invented" Linux that problem had been solved. ... those >>> were interesting times. >> >> "invented" == built upon Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix. > > Yeah, but who ever heard of Minux except old Unix heads. I doubt many Linux > users know what it is/was. ... :) > What? Linux and Minix are fundamentally different. The Minix predates Linux but one doesn't need two search hard to find them to be discussed by the original authours and by others were there are absolute concensus about the difference.
I submit a link to a foil hat who in his attempt to miscrerdit Linus and the Linux early coders with accusation about code theft acctually brought the Minix authour Tanenbaum on himself. This includes code comparison which of course didn't find any copied code! http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/ About code comparison: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ I know a concept can be the base of something without needing the finer details (the code) but there isn't any similarities between the two that possibly can be defined as Linux was built upon the Minix? It is the differencies people tend to acknowledge and nothing else. John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
