[Ilugc] Birthday to Linux - Aug 26th
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Tue Aug 29 12:46:39 2006
On 8/27/06, Roshan Mathews
<quote>
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you :-)
</quote>
Famous words from another thread. :)
May I politely interject here? Thanks.
I know that you are only quoting from an ancient thread but we should
stop talking about or even thinking about Minix.
It is an academic project by Tananbaum. He may be a great teacher and
an academician but one should remember that he is not an engineer.
We are engineers and hackers and we want things that work and work
well in the real world.
So let us safely lock Minix in the old rusty trunk box in your bedroom
and go try, the BSDs and breathe some fresh air.
Nobody is stopping you from writing your own device drivers for these
successful open source operating systems used by large corporations
with millions of dollars.
Don't waste your time doing projects of academic interest.
My two cents.
regards,
Girish
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