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Ummmmm, another newb driven away
lazygamer:
Well Linus did it, but it took him 10(?) years, tons of effort, and indirectly recruiting an army of volunters.
flap:
No he didn't. Richard Stallman and an army of volunteers (one of whom turned out to be Linus Torvalds) did it.
lazygamer:
Hold up here. Yes I know about the GNU thing, but what about Linux kernel and many of it's programs? I'm just being technical here, not trying to discredit others. if Linus Torvalds hadn't of gotten the idea to make his own OS, Linux would not be here.
I wanna add my two cents about Datacide.
When he says he wants to combine the best parts of OSes, he could very well mean design principles, not stealing source code.
Also Datacide made a terrible mistake in his ideology. It's ok to want to be bigger than Microsoft, but Datacide probably fails to grasp how truly bad Microsoft is. He sees success, we see bullshit. Also, Microsoft didn't get where it was with OSes and programming languages(this is probably moot point anyways), it got there with one fuck of alot of luck and the consistent usage of dirty tricks. Datacide probably doesn't get this either.
flap:
Linus wrote his own *kernel*, not an OS. Writing a new operating system was Stallman's idea. And the kernel is a significantly smaller fraction of the whole system than the GNU project's contribution.
lazygamer:
Ok now I'm starting to see it.
So Stallman's idea for an OS was hurd, right? So does this mean Linus hears about HURD and starts his kernel project, or does he start his kernel project and then hear about HURD?
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