IPng NetworksHappy birth date, Linux!
Trammell Hudson@IPngNetworks that's only a few months after he asked for help finding a good reference book on the x86 hardware.
Daniel@IPngNetworks Looking at the age of all those OSs makes me wonder if a brand new desktop OS would have a chance to succeed nowadays.
@daniel ah yea! Linux on the Desktop - any year now :) :)
@IPngNetworks If I made a desktop OS that is used by millions it would already be a success to me, no matter if it's #1 or #3 worldwide 
Marty Fouts@daniel @IPngNetworks Probably not. The history of OS acceptance, simplified, is that each new class of computers created a window that many OSes tried to fill. By the time the class of computers was well established it was dominated by a small number of OSes, which became impossible to displace.
The desktop was established decades ago and is in decline. even mobile devices are now established enough to make it difficult to displace the dominant OSes.
@daniel @IPngNetworks The reason for this is a common feature of technology development: infrastructure inertia. As an OS becomes established a huge infrastructure grows around it. To justify throwing away the infrastructure, a new OS would have to provide a significant innovation to attract users. But there has not been that level of innovation since GUIs.
Linux was sort of an exception because AT&T’s court case with UC Berkeley created a non technical vacuum.
@daniel @IPngNetworks Had they settled earlier, BSD source would have been available and Torvalds has said that he would not have started Linux in that case.
Silas@IPngNetworks "just a hobby, won't be big and professional"
A. Fleury-Gobert@sils @IPngNetworks
Have a look at the usb gadget driver in linux. It was named as such as no one would use it for anything serious.
From the official doc: "Most Linux developers will not be able to use this API..."
Hauke Thießen@IPngNetworks I love how you can tell that the text was written by a programmer because of the nested parentheses 😉
JohnMoyer@IPngNetworks
RE: https://ublog.tech/@IPngNetworks/113022858819342512
I remember that post to Usenet. Not long after there was a floppy disk image posted which would boot on a 80386. I booted it and then waited another year to start using it.
RE: https://ublog.tech/@IPngNetworks/113022858819342512
I remember that post to Usenet. Not long after there was a floppy disk image posted which would boot on a 80386. I booted it and then waited another year to start using it.
@johnmoyer i was pretty quick to it as well, but not 1991. I was running FreeBSD BBS "Frontdoor" systems in '94 and moved to Linux only in 1998 or so!
Louis Couture@IPngNetworks it's really a shame this is on an image and I have trouble reading this on a mobile device
Max Lee@louisrcouture @IPngNetworks
Hello everybody out there using minix –
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
Linus
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
Hello everybody out there using minix –
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
Linus
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
@the_moep @louisrcouture thanks, Max!