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> Google with all of their cash in the bank and talented engineers can't even crack the problem. Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years
by eitland 5y ago
> Google with all of their cash in the bank and talented engineers can't even crack the problem.
Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.
Ingo Molnar
From a message to the Linux Kernel mailing list in 1999.
- shepherdjerred 5y agoCan you explain? Was there a competitor to Linux that never surfaced?
- quotehelp9128 5y agoHere's the mailing list entry referenced: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.0/0746.html http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.0/0746.html
- fuzzer37 5y agoI assume they're talking about all the OS research done at places like XEROX and Bell Labs that never really came to fruition, but formed the basis for modern OS's.
- pdonis 5y agoI wonder if it was a veiled reference to the debate between Linus and Andrew Tanenbaum, who wrote MINIX based on OS research that, according to him, showed that microkernels are better than monolithic kernels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
- monetus 5y agowhat is the ratio between dynamic and static content amongst say the top100 web sites on the web? Can we say 0% static pages? [yes, i accept Dean Gaudet's point that webpages can be split up into dynamic and static parts, probably that will be the future.] This is delightful
- sam_bristow 5y agoIn a funny twist of history MINIX is running at ring -3 on most modern Intel CPUs. So it's probably running on more desktops than MacOS or Linux.
- eitland 5y agoMy point was that as a newcomer in either operating systems (Linux late last century) or a new search engine (Marginalia, Kagi) you cannot always win by repeating the same stuff incumbents do. Especially not when the incumbents are busy digging deeper holes.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYeah I'm very much betting on the null hypothesis when it comes to fancy machine learning-based methods and implementing the most bog-standard keyword search you could imagine. It's not perfect, but it's scary how well it works sometimes.