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> But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a MODERN "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like
by chimeracoder 15y ago
> But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a MODERN "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.
The most important - and ironic - line in the entire email.
Not to start a 'Linux vs. GNU/Linux' flameware, but ironically, everything that [most] people associate today with 'Linux' is as much a product of GNU as it is of Linux (if not more so). Furthermore, GNU Hurd has stalled, so in a way, Tanenbaum's reasoning was completely wrong, but his conclusion was almost completely right!
- sounds 15y agoWell, Linus did later sign: [1] Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds Therefore this entire HN Item is flamebait - bait for flames. The GNU project has been joined by many other allies with time-varying levels of "closeness." I would even argue that by now, *BSD is more closely allied with GNU/Linux than ever before. The Free Software Foundation is generally respected for Richard Stallman's prescient take on modern issues of freedom, privacy, and trust. [2] [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI/tHp9VExAcmMJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QW... [2] http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-becomes-dreaded-insane-reality/ http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-... but a little googling will turn up many, many more
- chimeracoder 15y ago> Therefore this entire HN Item is flamebait - bait for flames. Exactly - makes you wonder about whether this applies to other 'modern' flamewars that we still have today....