On Sunday 29 August 2004 05:28 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 9:20 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 August 2004 02:41 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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> > > On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:23:01, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > > I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going
> > > > for a while.
> > > >
> > > > I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just
> > > > for the learning experience, and something has just
> > > > dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to be built from a
> > > > host system, how did the first linux system get built?
> > > >
> > > > In other words, how can I create something that needs
> > > > itself to be created?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > /g
> > >
> > > On an i386 running minix as far as I remember. I'd have to
> > > dig for links to the history but for some reason that
> > > answer is stuck in my feable and fallible old brain.
> > >
> > > C.
> >
> > That's my recollection too Charlie. IIRC, Linus as much
> > as said so, and asked the minix author if it was Ok for him
> > to modify and distribute as OSS. Fortunately the answer was
> > yes.
>
> Careful, that's SCO territory. There is no Minix code in Linux
> and never was, so Linux needed no such permission, any more
> than you needed Linus' permission to write your email.
Andy Tanenbaum, 20 May 2004
[speaking of Ken Brown]
"I told him that MINIX had clearly had a huge influence on
Linux in many ways, from the layout of the file system to the
names in the source tree, but I didn't think Linus had used any
of my code."
"Linus also used MINIX as his development platform initially,
but there was nothing wrong with that. He asked if I objected to
that and I said no, I didn't, people were free to use it as they
wished for noncommercial purposes."
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
................
Link is mainly about SCO and Ken Brown. But you're right to
admonish me Richard for my sloppy memory and wording ;)
Use of MINIX (ie, 'influence', 'layout') as Linus' '[initial]
development platform' doesn't equal my term of "modify and
distribute as OSS". Mea culpa
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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