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Did Linus create Linux?
[COLOR=#1951B9]The 92-page report, from a 14-person Washington, D.C., think tank called the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, suggests more Linux credit should go to Minix. A Unix clone, Minix that was designed by Andrew Tanenbaum at Vrije University in Amsterdam for the study of operating systems and software, which Torvalds used before he embarked on Linux development in 1991.[/COLOR]
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Nodsu
on May 20, 2004 4:20 AM |
We needed a special study to find out that Linux is inspired from Minix? You gotta be joking. Any more serious text about Linux says that.This post is amost as legendary as the first words spoken over a telephone: [url]http://www.linux10.org/history/[/url] |
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---agissi---
on May 20, 2004 6:37 AM |
Yeah.. whys it matter? |
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Didou
on May 20, 2004 7:20 AM |
We all know [url=http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/ 244228&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=117&tid=133&tid=185&tid=186 tid=99]Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy[/url] came up with Linux. |
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lmbell
on May 20, 2004 11:00 AM |
Note that Tanenbaum himself has put a statement on line that Linus did not derive Linux from Minix. The statement also shows that Brown from ADTI is an ignoramus who did no real research and had an axe (funded by Microsoft no doubt) to grind. Just wish the press would pick this up as well. |
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Phantasm66
on May 20, 2004 2:53 PM |
Who created Linux? Maybe no one did. Linux just [i]is[/i].:evil: |
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Godataloss
on May 20, 2004 3:03 PM |
[quote]This post is amost as legendary as the first words spoken over a telephone: [url]http://www.linux10.org/history/[/url][/quote] :rolleyes: Yes it will echo through the halls of nerdom for all time! Ranks right up there with the invention of the clapper and whitening toothpaste in significance to my life.:grinthumb |
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Akio
on May 20, 2004 4:21 PM |
Linux is so cool! And the games it comes with... Oh wow! Hahaha, I like the game that you get to smash Bill Gates. Hahaha! Anyway, Santa and the Tooth Fairy created Linux?!? 8) Everything I ever learned is a LIE! :mad: |
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