[ Thanks to Glyn
Moody for this link. ]
“Most people in the free software world know about the
famous “LINUX is obsolete” thread that began on the comp.os.minix
newsgroups in January 1992, where Andrew Tanenbaum, creator of the
MINIX system that Linus used to learn about operating system
design, posted the following rather incendiary comment:“Don`t get me wrong, I am not unhappy with LINUX. It will get
all the people who want to turn MINIX in BSD UNIX off my back. But
in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a **MODERN**
“free” OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like
maybe GNU or something like that.“As Linus himself noted in his response:
“Well, with a subject like this, I’m afraid I’ll have to
reply.“Apologies to MINIX-users who have heard enough about Linux
anyway. I’d like to be able to just “ignore the bait”, but … Time
for some serious flamefesting!“The argument centred around the technical issue of whether
microkernels or monolithic kernels were the future. But another
heated discussion between Tanenbaum and Linus, which began on 5
February 1992, touches on quite different matters:”