🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:23:15 -0500, David L. Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:18:48 +0200, Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:18:34 -0700, Vladimirr Saigon wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Does anybody know why Linus choose to make linux monolithic instead of
>>> microkernel? I have been told, that there was some dispute about that
>>> decision.
>>> 
>> 
>> Heh, prepare for a looong but interesting read of a thread about Linux
>> inside the USENET group comp.os.minix titled "LINUX is obsolete" :
> 
> If I recall correctly, much of this noise about linux being obsolete came
> from the Hurd people, who "any day now" were going to have a microkernel
> available that would take over.  That and claims by MS that their system
> was a microkernel, which never seemed to make much sense.

Hmm interesting.... So Tanenbaum drogs the egg, and the HURD people finish
it off? Very interesting, it might also explain why Linus always had such
a distant nordic icy relationship with the FSF and GNU people. Look at how
he treats the GPL v3 efforts.

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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
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