I'd like to correct a misimpression here. Linux was written from ground up yes, but it's mechanisms, operations & internal standards were based on Unix which was already a tried & proven operating system by the 1970's.
The ability to write A's & B's & C's are a very trivial part of Unix/Linux. Even the current capability to display graphics (via the X Window system & libraries) are not part of the kernel & kernel space (unlike Microsoft Windows where the GUI is part & parcel of the kernel - crash the GUI and you crash the whole operating system with it). What gives Unix/Linux it's unique flavor is the way it combines multi-user capabilities & multitasking. DOS was a single user system with no multi-tasking abilities (TSR's like Sidekick were a workaround). Windows is multi-tasking but not multi-user. Unix /Linux is both. I've seen a team of SysAds work inside the same server, each running a complete array of tools at their disposal for diagnostics while being inside his/her own shell space. & talking/collaborating with each other at the same time :) This is what makes Unix what it is, the load balancing, the task synchronization, the complete separation of each user and his/her memory & directory space etc.. It doesn't even need a console , much less a GUI, to operate - the earliest versions used line printers for display. ----- Original Message ---- From: Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 11:25:33 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Response to Federico Pascual <snip> Linux came from something that printed A's and B's on the terminal. A lot of software that is what it is now would have most probably come from a very simple program comparable to a "Hello World" program at the first time of writing -- time, effort, and motivation have turned them into whatever they are today. <snip> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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