LK2008: The values of the Linux community

LK2008: The values of the Linux community

Posted Oct 17, 2008 23:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: LK2008: The values of the Linux community by gnu_andrew
Parent article: LK2008: The values of the Linux community

Linux didn't come out of nowhere in 1991. Its development was based on Andrew Tanenbaum's MINIX, with the aim of extending it from an educational to a full kernel

I don't think so. Minix just provided an OS to run the development environment on before Linux was self-hosting.

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