From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:45:27 -0300 [thread overview]
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From: "Burton Samograd" <kruhft@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:04:44 -0600
Message-ID: <ace468790603291004y3c87009fx72d0b779df1a47df@mail.gmail.com>
> There is no offense for linux to start as a terminal emulator.
> And Linus confirms that. And this fact doesn't contradict with
> your point (" wanting to try out the protected mode features
> of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't support").
> Why do you want to reject this terminal emulator origins?
I don't want to reject it, it just sounds like a bit of a slam, since
I generally don't hear much good about linux on lists such as this.
Without linux I wouldn't have ever had a chance to really learn unix,
would have never had a reason to check out plan9 and even have an iota
of understanding about why it's such a great evolution over the
original unix. I know linux isn't the best but it sure gets picked on
a lot, especially around these groups.
Us kids (well, I'm 31 today, but I still feel like a kid around these
circles) never got to grow up with unix and linux let us learn, so it
still has a place near my heart, warts, cancerous growths and all ;-)
--
burton samograd kruhft@gmail.com
kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-29 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-28 0:40 [9fans] new compilers erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 17:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-28 18:15 ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:13 ` [9fans] [OT] hypothetical questions Russ Cox
2006-03-28 19:28 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-28 20:26 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 21:18 ` Lou Kamenov
2006-03-29 6:14 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-28 19:41 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-28 19:15 ` [9fans] new compilers Victor Nazarov
2006-03-28 19:22 ` [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years Charles Forsyth
2006-03-28 20:07 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33 ` [9fans] new compilers Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 16:49 ` [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 18:04 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 18:45 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2006-03-29 19:41 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-29 23:27 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 0:38 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:29 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:40 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:55 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:13 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-30 4:26 ` jmk
2006-03-30 16:08 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 16:02 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 18:14 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 12:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 13:43 ` Richard Miller
2006-03-30 13:49 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-29 18:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-29 18:58 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 23:16 ` lucio
2006-03-30 2:00 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-30 5:06 ` lucio
2006-03-29 21:17 ` [9fans] new compilers Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-03-29 21:44 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-02 18:17 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-02 18:33 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-02 19:47 ` lucio
2006-04-02 20:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-02 20:16 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 4:35 ` lucio
2006-04-03 5:38 ` George Michaelson
2006-04-03 6:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 5:38 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 8:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 9:36 ` uriel
2006-04-03 12:50 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-04-03 9:39 ` lucio
2006-04-03 13:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-03 14:30 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-03 16:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-03 20:41 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-03 21:02 ` uriel
2006-04-03 21:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 23:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 0:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-04 5:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 3:15 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 3:28 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 6:31 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-04 4:21 ` lucio
2006-04-05 1:00 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-05 4:35 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 12:31 ` rog
2006-04-03 3:17 ` plan9
2006-04-03 4:17 ` lucio
2006-03-30 11:38 [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? erik quanstrom
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