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Reminds me of the famous Torvalds Tanenbaum debate. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topi

Reminds me of the famous Torvalds Tanenbaum debate. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw...

CGamesPlay 8y ago
Ah, this was great! > Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds
thsowers 8y ago
Thanks so much for the share, great gems in here, I still found myself surprised at this: > True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. It's hard to believe that he was only 23 when he wrote this
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Why? In Portugal we finish our 5 year engineering university degrees at the age of 23.
- tinco 8y ago
  I think thinking about operating systems is precisely the sort of thing 23 year old college students do. I know a few in my class did, I was hyped up by MS's Singularity OS back then. Unfortunately they were not aware yet that Windows was going to lose the Server OS war and they never pulled Singularity out of research. Operating Systems is a 2nd year course in most universities.
travbrack 8y ago
>I also agree that linux takes the non-portability to an extreme: I got my 386 last January, and linux was partly a project to teach me about it. Times sure have changed