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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:331 comp.os.386bsd.misc:713 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Date: 19 Aug 1993 16:48:06 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 44 Message-ID: <250sf4$4d9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <BDC.93Aug15214130@transit.ai.mit.edu> <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <250brt$t7g@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <250brt$t7g@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes: >In article <24rbb5$t51@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: > > >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. :-) > You are right. I knew it was one of those programs that are hard to live without. Even with the sh (didn't someone refer to is as 'half-ashed' :) in the state that it was, it presented a cost free alternative to Minix-386, which still wound up costing around $100 (US). [good stuff deleted...] >> 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. > And the file system and a bunch of other stuff. It was a neat time to be on the net. It was like watching a shark feeding frenzy :-) >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.!) > Oh! In that case, it must be that Linux is just a better OS :-)... -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX