[ncolug] Re: Minix3
- From: "Larry D" <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:44:01 -0500 (EST)
> The chances that in ten years you will be using Minix and/or Minix
> derived concepts are far greater than you still using Linux in ten years.
>
> Henry
"In ten years, we will also be driving cars that run on used french-fry oil."
Both statements seem to make some sense at first glance. (Well, at least
one of them does.) Both are false.
We won't be driving cars that run on used french-fry oil because there
isn't enough french-fry oil in the world, used or otherwise, to replace
even 1% of the fuel used by cars in a month.
Here is why you won't be using Minix:
In terms of technology, it is roughly equivalent to running DOS. A quote
from the Minix website:
"MINIX 3 is initially targeted at the following areas:"
"Single-chip, small-RAM, low-power, $100 laptops for Third-World children"
We won't be using it, because we are not third-world children, and we need
more of an OS than DOS.
--
"Life is too short, to spend it waiting for slow hardware to do something..."
- Dev
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