Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by dboreham on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:42AM
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This is true, but if there hadn't been Linux there would have been something else to fill this niche (runs on commodity PC hardware, zero license cost). Sparc/Solaris wouldn't have continued to rule. Intel would have found some other workable solution.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by peapicker on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:27PM
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True. And we'd have the same issues with this processor family now...
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and loved FreeBSD back when it was more easy to choose... But I do think the 'free UNIX' movement has had unintended consequences like the demise of Sun, and perhaps now also this exposing of a failure in what was a desktop class chip architecture that was elevated to server usage.
Everything has a cost is all I'm saying.
Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by digi_owl on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:01PM
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Indeed. For one there was the 386BSD lawsuit, for another there was HURD. Torvalds himself has stated that if HURD had been usable at the time, he would not have bothered working on Linux.
Honestly, back when Linux started getting momentum, RMS' GNU/Linux argument had merit. Most of the stuff people where running on top of Linux, never mind using to develop Linux, came from the GNU project.