From: zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) Subject: Re: Linux - the future? Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 08:30:27 CST
wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
> satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru) writes:
> >Just out of curiousity, what was AST's beef against Linux/Linus?
>
> Part of it was that ast seems to dislike monolithic operating system
> kernels in general and prefers microkernels and distributed systems.
>
> I cannot know whether it is true, but for a bystander (although biased)
> it also looked like ast didn't like competition for Minix. Also, he
> seemed to not quite understand that Linux was not meant as a research
> but as a hacking project.
>
> However, the above is from memory, as I don't have any saved articles
> from that time.
Could someone send me an email message about what this means? I've just
'tuned in' this group... Is Linux still be worked on/advanced or has
something happened that has basically stagnated the OS and people are still
porting things over?
I am really interested. I'm finally getting some time and am trying to
get Linux and other stuff, but if it has stagnated because of AST for some
reason I'd like to know.
Thanks in advance.
Greg
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