31 Oct
2024
31 Oct
'24
4:19 a.m.
D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-10-30 15:40:
Linux was a simple hack based on Unix.
Not really. Everything starts small, but Linux was quite large by the time it was really useful for something other than Linux development. It seems rather reductive to call Linux "a simple" anything.
Kernels are not, by anyone's standards, "simple". Oh, what I'd give to hear Linus's response to that claim.