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Twenty-six years ago today, someone from Finland posted the following message to comp.os.minix:
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
Here's wishing him and his creation another twenty-six happy years of world domination.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @07:22PM (1 child)
Yip, one of them Euro-Commies. Pink and unpatriotic. Hail Trumppence!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:01AM
I doubt Linus is a pinko collectivist. What I don't doubt is that he believes that Blacks and Jews are subhuman. You know it from the way he talks, even if he doesn't say it directly. I bet he's so angry because the subhuman hordes are invading his homeland and turning it into a third-world shithole.
Anyway, my own experience with Linux was extremely mediocre. I stopped using it when I got into big-boy school (except for the OS class which was terminal-heavy, and after that I stopped altogether). It had a lot of potential to be useful, but again collapsed backward into a super-autistic mess suitable only for dick-kneading booger-eaters. It is near-impossible to eke even basic functionality out of it, available applications have super-autistic UIs and are third-rate, and even my favorite feature -- the apt package management system -- becomes horribly broken if you use an older version of Linux.