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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago

Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world

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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world

www.xda-developers.com

fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago
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Linux really turned that one around, huh?
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Called “obsolete” by whom? Microsoft?

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      Andy Tannembaum. Mi ix is microkernel. Linux is monolithic

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        I’ve been there with the MINIX debate back then. I’ve actually used MINIX on a job back then. Tannenbaum knows his stuff, but with that, he was completely off. I don’t think that most people in the Linux scene nowadays have ever heard of him or his OS. So much for relevance.

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      Reading is hard, isn’t it?

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        Especially when the linked article does not open, yes.

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        And it’s in the big bold title…

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      The image reads Andy Tannenbaum.

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        Ah, OK, the Tannenbaum discussion. Yes, we had good laughs back then.

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      No, Microslop called it a “cancer”.

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        That, too.

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