From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 8 Jul 1993 13:20:41 +0300
In article <1993Jul8.041711.24937@muug.mb.ca> rgallen@muug.mb.ca (Rennie Allen) writes:
>
>Well, (trying not to start a flame war - and I think we're leaving the NT
>arena a bit here), I must say that I would question the quality of Linux
>myself. I haven't used it but I am familiar with it's basic design and I
>must say it's no screaming hell. Linux is a monolithic kernel essentially
>no different from the OS's of the early 70's. UNIX's excuse is that it was
>developed in the early 70's; what's Linuxs' ?
Ahh. Quite like the good old days in c.o.minix - flame wars on design.
This is going to be a good one ;-)
Quite simply, the "excuse" is that it works and is simple and efficient,
something that I personally think is more important than many of the
advantages claimed by microkernel designs. Mircokernels aren't simple,
whatever people have been trying to tell you, and they have design
problems too. Linux is not actually badly designed or coded, it's just
not using the latest buzzwords.
Linus "excuses excuses" Torvalds