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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world
(www.xda-developers.com)
Always has been
Windows was called obsolete (by me) years ago, and it's abandoned (by me) since mid 2024.
my kind of authority
"was called obsolete" - by 1 person who happened to be the developer of a competing OS/kernel.
~~And was Linus's teacher for Operating Systems in Helsinki~~
Write the book on Operating Systems that Torvalds said inspired him to make Linux.
At university?
You mean docent I presume. Universities do not exactly have teachers.
Resident or visiting?
I think universities do have teachers, but that's beside the point.
Anyway I misremembered and it was just that Tanenbaum wrote the OS book that Torvalds had during undergrad.
... and millions of phones ๐
And your car and likely your fridge too. Linux is everywhere.
I mean, if it were for novelty and "cleverness" then it would be Plan-9 (or BeOS) the one who shoulda take over. At the end of the day both Linux.and Minix are both following the UNIX model which even at that time it already was "obsolete". But reality is often more pragmatic
Honestly plan9 is neat but it suffers from being incredibly stringy and so does Linux / unix.
There's some new paradigms out there that probably need to be uncovered. Computers have way more processing capabilities then they did in the 90s
The point was microkernel vs monolith
It's a old design shoe horned to do modern things. That's fine but yeah.... Obviously something more modern would be nice.
Linux obsolete before windows 95 , lol
How? Torvolds released the Linux kernel in 91, lol.
Oh, maybe because UNIXWare 1.0 (System V 4.2) came out in 1992, the first major release in years. :P ๐
And it captured our hearts along the way. I bet few of us knew it existed in '92.
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.
No, Microslop called it a "cancer".
That, too.
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