From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9022e74610fb8867f2f7d72c608669fe@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:06:40 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <20060330073010.751d3c12@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 26253fe6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But it was the patch-hell of maintaining it that made Linux so > attractive in those days. I don't know, I went from an interest in Minix directly to 386BSD and I have never had cause to look back. Except that Plan 9 changes the landscape somewhat. ++L