From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:53:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF13C8A.F2B726B7@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF10055.E3DA0B82@strakt.com>
Boyd Roberts wrote:
> Could someone explain to me why linux caught on?
Originally, because it was free, so hobbyists had an incentive
to check it out. Obviously anything resembling UNIX has great
appeal (by comparison with Microsoft systems) for people
motivated enough to bother to choose which OS they use.
At the time, it seemed like the only feasible cheap alternative
to Windows, and when it proved to be a higher-throughput
platform for Web servers, vendors started paying attention to
it and making sure that Linux device drivers were developed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 15:53 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-29 4:03 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-13 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-13 15:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-11-13 17:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
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2001-11-14 8:29 okamoto
2001-11-14 5:24 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-14 4:42 Russ Cox
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2001-11-13 23:27 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
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2001-11-14 0:40 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 21:46 Russ Cox
2001-11-13 21:46 Sape Mullender
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2001-11-13 21:47 ` andrey
2001-11-13 20:18 David Gordon Hogan
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2001-11-13 22:38 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 19:58 presotto
2001-11-13 20:14 ` William Josephson
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2001-11-12 19:24 anothy
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2001-11-12 19:18 David Gordon Hogan
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2001-11-13 2:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-13 2:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 2:27 ` William Josephson
2001-11-13 10:34 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 19:15 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-12 17:06 anothy
2001-11-12 15:10 presotto
2001-11-12 13:14 nigel
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 18:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-11-14 9:52 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 12:17 geoff
2001-11-13 10:25 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-12 13:48 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-13 16:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-11-09 9:38 okamoto
2001-11-09 9:21 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-11-09 11:23 ` pac
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:45 ` David Rubin
2001-11-12 15:34 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-11-09 7:42 Russ Cox
2001-11-08 14:55 presotto
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 10:17 ` John S. Dyson
2001-11-08 13:46 forsyth
2001-11-09 0:51 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08 10:40 Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 12:55 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09 14:34 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-10 2:00 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 11:29 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-11-13 10:27 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:42 ` T. Kurt Bond
2001-11-12 20:24 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-13 0:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-12 10:33 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
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