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Brian Masinick
Happy anniversary to the Linux kernel!
The OpenSource.com Highlights periodic Email newsletter, published/supported by Red Hat, sent an Email message today, and one of the headlines indicated that Linus Torvalds released his first Linux kernel to the public 31 years ago today.More information: As Torvalds wrote in his book Just for Fun,[15] he eventually ended up writing an operating system kernel. On 25 August 1991, he (at age 21) announced this system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup “comp.os.minix.”:[16]
[Torvalds, Linus Benedict (August 1991). “comp.os.minix”. Retrieved 2009-09-06.]In article <1991Aug25....@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
>This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and
>I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
>are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them 🙂Tell us more! Does it need a MMU?
>PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
>It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc)How much of it is in C? What difficulties will there be in porting?
Nobody will believe you about non-portability ;-), and I for one would
like to port it to my Amiga (Mach needs a MMU and Minix is not free).As for the features; well, pseudo ttys, BSD sockets, user-mode
filesystems (so I can say cat /dev/tcp/kruuna.helsinki.fi/finger),
window size in the tty structure, system calls capable of supporting
POSIX.1. Oh, and bsd-style long file names.//Jyrki
(Source of the post by “Jyrki”: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/SwRavCzVE7gJ?pli=1 )
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Brian MasinickBobC
From little acorns grow giant Oak trees.
at the ripe old age of 21
When we are young, we see problems as surmountable, do things, fix problems, and do more things…
Brian Masinick
Look how far things have come!
For quite a while after Linux came out, UNIX was a popular server environment. No UNIX vendor, except possibly Sun Microsystems, took UNIX seriously enough make a solid business. Oracle nearly did it but lost both UNIX and database business to Linux based servers and freely available database systems.Microsoft beat some of these for a few decades but also lost business to less expensive options.
There are always ways to overcome these things but as soon as one environment is adopted another one or a migration is already underway.
Mark my words the systems we’re using now are due for more significant changes. antiX can live on, yet the most modern systems are well overdue for evolutionary changes.
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