it seems so innocent, lol
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“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.
(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)
Aged like fine milk. Looking at you, GNU Hurd.
not really, gnu is still a big professional project
GNU, or as I'd like to call it, GNU+PTerry
GNU Hurd didn't take a good path of development following MACH design. But I still think GNU Hurd is the kernel of the future. Probably the Next generation Hurd. Just because GNU MACH and Hurd present very convoluted designs.
A kernel that performs most of their activities in user space and that it is truly modular looks very promising for the kind of systems we have nowadays and in the future.
Someone has to make the change, or we will stagnate in cumbersome and up featured systems.
I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.
I'm glad someone was able to donate a non-AT drive because Linus could not afford it :-(
...probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks,as that's all I have. :-(.
Cuteness.
As in hilarity.
That's why he needed glasses.
Yeah, I was looking at it today actually.
Happy Birthday, Linux.
There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.
My cousin's buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn't feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.
Ehh, it'll never take off.
And an OS was born.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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This somehow makes me feel both old and young at the same time.
Congratulations you've just unlocked midlife crisis. You can now wear sunglasses inside and shop at camp david.
GNU is older than Linux? Neat.
Truly humble beginnings.
Has he come up with a name yet ?
It's a minix clone, so... mimix?
I actually like that name, but it might be too close to the original for trademark comfort.
Freax
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