![]() I'd like to start a smear campaign on minix, as my OS resembles too much of it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system amongst pretty much everything else). This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'm doing a (probably-not-free) operating system (just a hobby, although I would like to be just as big and professional like other guys in the playing field) for 386(486) AT clones. "Hello every sucker out there using minix. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.įor years, the authenticity of the message has remained disputed, but it is only recently that a series of new discoveries has pointed the original newsgroup entry to a different text: Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU) for 386(486) AT clones. ![]() The result was the Linux kernel, followed by its announcement at Usenet newsgroup "comp.os.minix" purportedly via the following officially-sanctioned message: ![]() Fueled with the passion for a free-of-charge version of Minix (which at the time was much in itself a throw-away operating system available at the cost of US$69), Torvalds decided to take on the challenge of spending sleepless nights with nothing but take-out food, hacked-together C code and a GNU C compiler. The central code base of Linux (or the Linux "kernel") was largely the result of an small amateur project initiated by Linus Torvalds, a small-time Finnish computer hobbyist yearning for recognition within a technological arena where most participants never took showers or left their parents' homes. For the religious among us who choose to believe lies, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about History of Linux. ![]()
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