• SpaceNoodle
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    9 months ago

    Pretty sure Torvalds originally built Linux from not Linux

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          9 months ago

          Minix is not a Unix fork, it’s a Unix-like (along with Linux). Tanenbaum wrote Minix from scratch as an educational tool. It’s userland these days is basically NetBSD but at the kernel level, Minix has a very different architecture to Unixes.