Do your homework Omar.
MINIX and Linux The design principles Tanenbaum applied to MINIX famously influenced the design decisions Linus Torvalds<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds>applied in the creation of the Linux kernel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel>. Torvalds used and appreciated MINIX, but his design deviated from the MINIX architecture in significant ways, most notably by employing a monolithic kernel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_kernel>instead of a microkernel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel>. This was famously disapproved of by Tanenbaum in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum-Torvalds_debate>. Recently, Tanenbaum explained again his rationale<http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/reliable-os>for using a microkernel in May 2006. Early Linux kernel development was done on a MINIX host system, which led to Linux inheriting various features from MINIX, such as the MINIX disk filesystem<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem>format. [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MINIX&action=edit§ion=4> ] Accusations of Linux being copied from MINIX In May 2004 Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution>raised the accusation [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#_note-0> that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called * Samizdat <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat_%28book%29>*. These accusations were rebutted universally - in particular by Andrew Tanenbaum, who strongly criticised Kenneth Brown and published a long rebuttal on his own personal website. [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#_note-1> [3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX#_note-2> >From wikipedia of course. Abdallah On Jan 25, 2008 12:06 AM, Omar The Pythoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a guy in the Ubuntu group in Facebook that claims that > Linux stole the Minix kernel, and only slightly altering the code to > run on Microsoft hardware abstraction layer. > > ====>From his words: > > As a side note, I just talked to my techie friend Ryan, and he has > informed me that the original Linux operating system actually stole > the Minix kernel, only slightly altering the code to run on the > Microsoft hardware abstraction layer. > > =============== > > > Does that even have a bit or half a bit of truth??? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
