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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world
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Called "obsolete" by whom? Microsoft?
Reading is hard, isn't it?
Especially when the linked article does not open, yes.
And it's in the big bold title...
The image reads Andy Tannenbaum.
Ah, OK, the Tannenbaum discussion. Yes, we had good laughs back then.
Andy Tannembaum. Mi ix is microkernel. Linux is monolithic
I've been there with the MINIX debate back then. I've actually used MINIX on a job back then. Tannenbaum knows his stuff, but with that, he was completely off. I don't think that most people in the Linux scene nowadays have ever heard of him or his OS. So much for relevance.
No, Microslop called it a "cancer".
That, too.