Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > :) :) If he is Linus' teacher, I'm sure he'll know what to do with the > > data. > > I don't think he actually taught Linus. Linus was in Finland, and Andy > teaches in Holland. Andy wrote a book on operating systems, and wrote > Minix (Minature Unix) as a teaching tool. It was really pretty neat. I meant more "teacher" in inverted commas > He and Linus got into a rather heated discussion on the Minix > newsgroup, which ended with Linus saying he was going to go write his > own OS to overcome the shortcomings of the teaching OS. He did, and > the resulting history is scaring the crap out of one Bill Gates. > BTW-early versions of Linux used the Minix file system. And to be > fair, Linux would not be where it is today without all of the great > GNU programs from the Free software Foundation. plenty more here http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/