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The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 19 - Dr. Peter Salus (Groklaw)
Groklaw has posted
the next installment of The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin,
subtitled "Tanenbaum and Torvalds". "Linus posted his queries, his
information and his work on comp.os.minix beginning in mid-1991. But on 29
January 1992, Andy Tanenbaum posted a note with the line: "Subject: LINUX
is obsolete""
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The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 19 - Dr. Peter Salus (Groklaw) Posted Oct 14, 2005 17:34 UTC (Fri) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link] And in a little known curiosity, Tanenbaum took such a great interest in the last Presidential Election that he ran this leading results projection site:
Where's the beef? Posted Oct 15, 2005 4:31 UTC (Sat) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link] Is it just me, or are the chapters in this series getting thinner and thinner? I wonder if Salus is running low on time?
Where's the beef? Posted Oct 15, 2005 16:06 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Yes, this installment just talks about an ancient flaming session. Not even in full; as can be read in one of the comments, Torvalds apologized a couple of days after that. Quite poor IMHO.
Where's the beef? Posted Oct 16, 2005 11:14 UTC (Sun) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link] I asked myself this same question at installment 3
The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 19 - Dr. Peter Salus (Groklaw) Posted Oct 17, 2005 5:22 UTC (Mon) by kune (subscriber, #172) [Link] I found this "chapter" also very disappointing. The whole microkernel discussion remembers me on the RISC versus CISC debate. It seems that there are still academics out there, which don't understand that users are interested in applications and don't care what's under the hood. Given the progress in processor speed for the last decade, a performance increase of 8%, which is not backed by Salus by any reference, doesn't matter. What matters is the ease of installation, usability, update support, stable hardware drivers and - repeating myself - applications.
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