If I remember correctly Linus created Linux because he could not distributed some of the fixes he had made for Minix in a single package. Can someone correct or verify this?

On 3/28/06, Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:

>> P.S.  This doesn't mean I'll ever *forgive* Andy Tannenbaum for spurring
>> the creation of Linux.

This is how myths are born.  Andy Tanenbaum (one n) had nothing to do with
Linux.  He started Minix.  Maybe the existence of Minix played a role in Linus'
decision to start Linux, maybe not.

        Sape

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Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there is nothing final about it. Thus God
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
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