From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:52:59 -0500 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1225_28514262.1143571979387" References: <20060328181558.77B4629574@mail.bitblocks.com> <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 245eac10-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_1225_28514262.1143571979387 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline If I remember correctly Linus created Linux because he could not distribute= d 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 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 wit= h > Linux. He started Minix. Maybe the existence of Minix played a role in > Linus' > decision to start Linux, maybe not. > > Sape > > -- 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 i= s 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." -- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_1225_28514262.1143571979387 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 sp= urring
>> the creation of Linux.

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

        Sape




--
Nietzsche's first step is to a= ccept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contr= uctive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is t= o provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and the= re is nothing final about it. Thus God
is useless, since He wants nothi= ng in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the tradi= tional
forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsib= lity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
which would debase = the entire value of being born."
-- Albert Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt= =E9 ------=_Part_1225_28514262.1143571979387--