Talk:Linux (operating system)

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Linux talk archives

Archive 1, 4-9-07: Talk:Linux/Archive1

Archive 2, 4-11-07: Talk:Linux/Archive2

Archive 3, 4-20-07 Talk:Linux/Archive3

The big re-write

I've begun the big re-write, so don't freak out when you see the article is now a stub :-) I'll try to put all the information back in ASAP, so please bear with me. As a reference, I'm providing a link to the old revision here. --Joshua David Williams 15:14, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

Linux is an open source operating system. By strict definition, it is rarely seen by the user, because its job is to be a layer between the user environment and the hardware. That strict definition should be for the Linux kernel article, don't you think? Linux should be the broad general intro. Stephen Ewen 20:32, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

True, but I thought it was important to clarify this to begin with. Perhaps we should move that part to the GNU/Linux controversy subsection of this article? --Joshua David Williams 20:42, 23 April 2007 (CDT)

Latest releases

I agree with Pat that we shouldn't display the latest stable releases. These change fairly often, so the article won't be a credible source for that information. -Joshua David Williams 21:25, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

about history

Linux was started in 1991 by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds. At the time, the majority of Unix systems were very expensive. The only affordable workstation environment was a proprietary system called Minix. Although the source code was included with this system, the license fee was still a bit pricey, and it was not as good as the systems the workstations in the universities were running. Actually the license for minix was FREE it was developed by a professor at the university where Torvald studied. Torvald used minix as base for linux and expanded it into a networked environment and only later into the open source - where being freely available for universities was his first primary goal. Solid stable and free to use. minix however was a very limited version of the two commercial unixes around (BSD and AT&T).

monolythic kernels are used by a variety of variations of linux but also microkernel linux/unix are abundant. Robert Tito |  Talk  21:58, 1 May 2007 (CDT)