ast's comments on OS's [was Re: LINUX is obsolete]

ast's comments on OS's [was Re: LINUX is obsolete]

Subject: ast's comments on OS's [was Re: LINUX is obsolete]
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 12:07:46 GMT
In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)

 In article <12595@star.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
 >who want to turn MINIX in BSD UNIX off my back.  But in all honesty, I would
 >suggest that people who want a **MODERN** "free" OS look around for a 
 >microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

 I hear bsd 4.4 might also become free and appear in the near future
 for the 386, also someone's supposed to be working on bsd 4.4 on top
 of the Mach microkernel, and then there's of course GNU.  Currently of
 course for many people Linux is the OS to use because it's here now,
 is free and works.

 >P.S. Just as a random aside, Amoeba has a UNIX emulator (running in user
 >space), but it is far from complete.  If there are any people who would
 >like to work on that, please let me know.  To run Amoeba you need a few 386s,
 >one of which needs 16M, and all of which need the WD Ethernet card.

 A note here, the sources I've seen seem to imply that Amoeba will not
 be free as in you won't be able to use it, copy it, enhance it, share
 it etc. without paying $$ and/or asking permission from someone.

 //Jyrki

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