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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Date: 19 Aug 1993 17:05:01 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
> reinventing the monolithic operating system) and release Linux in it's
> original unusable version (no shell??? or something). Then a BUNCH of
not quite correct... it did have a shell, some weird pre-release of
bash with half of the documented features not working, but it was
usable. It did not have an init or login, so you could only boot into
single user mode and once you logged out, the only key accepted
further was Reset. :-)
0.12 (or was it 0.11?) corrected this: it had a mini-init inside the
kernel (which is still there, in case there is no user space init
available) which spawns /bin/sh, waits for its demise ('child xxx
died with code yyy' or something) and re-spawns it.
A working init/login package (by Peter Orbaek) was among the first
'third-party' software available for Linux. :-)
> people jumped ship from minix to Linux. My resounding opinion is that
> none of this would have happened as quickly as it did without Andrew
> Tanenbaum's work on minix and the introduction of comp.os.minix.
Right. In fact, the structure of the original Linux kernel was heavily
influenced by minix.
> Most of Europe seems to have adopted Linux as their system of choice. I
> expect that this is (in part, at least) to the fact that Linus is from
> Europe. Why put up with those silly export restrictions and long
> distance network connections when Linux is available right there on the
> continent.
Europeans pull their Linux software mostly from tsx-11 at MIT. :-)
(nic.funet.fi has a terrible connection to the rest of Europe, there
were times when IP traffic from Finland to Germany had to be routed
via the U.S.!)
Olaf
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