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Article #1620Re: Dream OS = Linux
From: Jim Williams
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:50
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:50
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adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote: > >If AT&T, Dec, or Sun had come out with a low-cost (<$100) UNIX >implementation for PCs then linux would not have enjoyed much popularity >at all. Very few people care about source code. There was a demand for >UNIX, linux was the first thing that showed up. > I don't know about the numbers which care about having the source, but those of us who care care a whole lot. I find just about any documentation so unreliable that whenever I really need to get close to the OS I then need to read the relevent source. That's what the source is, the ultimate documentation. The source is also the ultimate QA. If I think something is behaving a bit strange then I want to go have a look and see what's really going on. The source is also the utlimate security tool. If I think some algorithm is a bit flakey, or too well known then I can go tweek it so that some cracker isn't going to find exactly the expected. -- Jim Williams. Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux Date: 24 Aug 1995 16:50:45 GMT Organization: Elision Message-ID: <41ial5$17m@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,<3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <dblakey-1008951144220001@dblakey.wat.hookup.net> <40l9d9$8i1@news.ios.com> <40lplj$qi5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <40mknh$r77@news.infoserve.net> <41bp9a$2lj@sloth.swcp.com> <danpop.809114332@rscernix> <adtDDqttF.1DL@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)