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I think that is a little simplistic, the main thing that got Linux going was sustained and continued effort. If this first message had been a flop Linus would
by slededit 8y ago
I think that is a little simplistic, the main thing that got Linux going was sustained and continued effort. If this first message had been a flop Linus would likely have continued working and pushing it through. It was almost a decade before Linux could be considered a "real" operating system ready for production.
- asknthrow 8y agoI can hear RMS right now... "It's GNU/Linux."
- copperx 8y agoReimplementing the humongous GNU toolchain would be totally worth it just to stop reading that line over and over again.
- fouc 8y agoLess than a decade by far. It was already in wide spread use amongst the small dial-up ISPs by 1995.
- slededit 8y agoThe bulk of the .com era was still on SUN and commercial Unicies. Linux was still in its early adopter phase. It was only in the 2000s that it started to get widespread adoption.