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night of the living bathroom

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daily-knowledge
@daily-knowledge

daily knowledge: linus torvalds first announced linux on the comp.os.minix usenet group on august 25th, 1991. since minux was another unix-like operating system (this one targeted towards students), he asked the community what they liked and disliked about it, since he was working on his own free operating system as a hobby.
the original message can be read here: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/SwRavCzVE7gJ Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). 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 :-). Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi). 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), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(


Anschel
@Anschel

I love this announcement so much because the ambitions are adorably small. It says a lot about the modern web, both good and bad, that it's pretty much all built on top of little fun toy projects that will never be "big and professional".


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

not big and professional like gnu


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