On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:08:17 -0500 Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 01 February 2002 01:21 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > During the famous > > Linus/Tanenbaum debates of 10 years or so ago, Tanenbaum said that if > > Linux had been written for one of his OS classes, it would have received > > a failing grade (due to its monolithic kernel architecture). > > Just goes to show that "worse is better".
Probably the reason Linux was able to hijack the loyalties of the free software community. Having focused developing the tools, the FSF was taking its sweet time building the core of the Hurd system. So when Linux came along, everybody just jammed the piece into the unfinished puzzle. The Best OS is always somebody's thesis. -- Humanity's future is in the stars: support a manned mission to Mars! http://www.thinkmars.net/petition/addpetition.html