On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:13:53 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> I think it's not so much that Linus T said "If I make it look like UNIX,
> I can use all the tools."  I think it was probably at least as much "If
> I make it look like UNIX, I won't have to figure out how an OS *should*
> work."  Hence, it starts out with all the brokenness of UNIX, then
> slowly piles on even more patches to try to make it useful, as long as
> you're not trying to maintain binary compatibility anyway.

Um, I think you'll find that Linux is a derivative of Minix, not UNIX.  
At best it's Unix-like.

Jim

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