Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

Re:Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology P... by zerostar07 on Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:55AM (#3862701)

Looks like Linus did more or better work. I 've never used/seen a gnu hurd system in my life.

Edit: Well, then you should not stop at Stallman. Hundreds of scientists, going back to Godel and beyond gave roots to modern open algorithms/software by giving away their academic research for free. I think Linux did not start just to be a free kernel, but because linus wanted to actually make a better system than minix (and learn to use 386, and finish his Master!).

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Re:Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology P... by kleiba on Thursday April 19, 2012 @09:08AM (#3862758)

Oh, I didn't mean GNU+Hurd in particular, rather the fact that any operating system is more than "just" the kernel. And that is not meant to discredit Linus' outstanding achievement.

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Re:Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology P... by kds on Friday April 20, 2012 @03:56AM (#3866928)

But you've seen the GCC - the thing that compiles the Linux kernel, right? The default C - and some more languages - compiler on almost any Linux or BSD system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection

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