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From his CV: One of the early users of MINIX was Linus Torvalds. He began modifying MINIX to add new features that he thought were needed. Over a period of tim
by bartkappenburg 9y ago
From his CV:
One of the early users of MINIX was Linus Torvalds. He began modifying MINIX to add new features
that he thought were needed. Over a period of time he had modified almost everything and
launched it as a new operating system, Linux. It is fairly safe to say that had I not written MINIX there
would have been no Linux.
- ekianjo 9y agoThe last sentence is quite pretentious and completely unprovable. And if Linux had not existed we would have had GNU Hurd way earlier in all likelihood.
- ajsalminen 9y agoI think BSD taking the lead once the legal issues were resolved would have been far more likely than Hurd taking the place of Linux.
- digi_owl 9y agoTorvalds himself seems to have claimed that had Hurd been usable back then, he would never have taken Linux as far as he did. Minix seems to have been barely on his radar, if at all.
- fermigier 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#Relationship_with_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#Relationship_with_Linux The design principles Tanenbaum applied to MINIX greatly influenced the design decisions Linus Torvalds applied in the creation of the Linux kernel.[citation needed] Torvalds used and appreciated MINIX,[17] [...] Early Linux kernel development was done on a MINIX host system, which led to Linux inheriting various features from MINIX, such as the MINIX file system.
- digi_owl 9y ago>[citation needed] Hilarious...
- cmrdporcupine 9y agoNot true at all, MINIX was so much on the radar that the early Linux installations I used all used the MINIX filesystem. As far as I remember, Linus was a MINIX user and that was one of the things that inspired him to attempt what he did.
- ksk 9y ago>And if Linux had not existed we would have had GNU Hurd way earlier in all likelihood. Is that provable? :)
- ekianjo 9y agoRMS said it himself.
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