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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Date: 25 Aug 91 2
by ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones...
...PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks...
- happyweasel 2mo ago100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu The initial filesystem was minix The kernel was Linux. So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit. But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios.
- podocarp 2mo ago> imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios. Like templeOS I guess
- a34729t 2mo agoTempleOS blows my mind, honestly.
- cestith 2mo agoThis is all true. It’s also all in a thread about GNU Hurd, which also builds on all of that GNU software plus a Mach-based kernel.
- inigyou 2mo agoWere. How many are now? 1%? GNU's Not Vim, GNU's Not IntelliJ, GNU's Not Google Chrome.