On Saturday 30 April 2005 15.21, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Sat, 30 Apr 2005, by kevanf1@gmail.com: [..]
Ok, number one, I have always been led to believe that Linus Torvalds developed Linux (not his name but given that name by the later developers) as part of his university course. It was first and foremost developed as a secure and stable operating system in a similar way to Unix but for running on IBM compatible PC's. Please, say if I'm wrong.
Not really, in his own words: "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"
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And BOY was he wrong!! I wonder what his thought had been if he'd know the way Linux would expload across the world, taking market shares, BIG market shares from Microsoft... :) -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------