Re: M$ licenses Unix
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:37:42PM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> I read somewhere that Linux was/is based on Minix,
It isn't. Linus Torvalds was using minix when he started to write linux,
but linux is not based on minix.
> where does that figure into all of this?
> I realize it may be a Unix variant but to what degree of
> separation?
Minix is an operating system specifically written to be used as a
teaching aid in operating system courses.
Frank
> Should I be concerned that one day in the near future Linux
> will no longer exist as an operating system?
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> mw.
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