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Re: Andy Tanenbaum on Linux's origins and security


From: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando () mecon gov ar>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 07:44:36 +0100

En un mensaje anterior, Kenneth R. van Wyk escribió:
Andy Tanenbaum, the author of the MINIX operating system, recently posted an 
opinion piece on the origins of Linux.  It's a fascinating albeit somewhat 
lengthy read -- see http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ for the full text.  

People interested might also like to read:

http://www.kde.org/history/linux_is_obsolete.php

"An interesting discussion mainly between Andy Tanenbaum, a well known Professor
of Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam and Linus Torvalds"

fast is to make it small. Fight Features."

I find the "fight features" ideas particulary interesting, but have so far not
found a good and general way of {t,pr}eaching that to customers or stakeholders.
Any experience there?

Regards, Fernando.







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