Which leads to the fact that although Linux may have been built on a Minix environment, it doesn't mean that the Linux Kernel was stolen from Minix. Am I right??
On Jan 25, 7:26 am, Abdallah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
