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: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 25 2017, @10:23PM
You act like I insulted the guy or something. Linus is an asshole. Linus needs to be an asshole. Could you imagine the flaming piece of garbage Linux would be today if he were sweet and mild-mannered towards shitty coding? Odin bless his assholish little heart.
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