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Old 9th May 2009
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
It is also quite possible that that heated Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate on the value of microkernels picqued the curiosity of many.
I wasn't introduced to computer's at the time but I did read it a few years later.
Yeah, that surely must have added fuel to the hype machinery around Linux.

My experience of Linux is from 1999-00. The Linux noise in the media was deafening. I don't how the Linux personalities made the sort of claims about Linux they did at the time with a straight face.

There was anti-BSD propganda going on too. Apparently, the BSD license wasn't free like the GPL, and the fbsd devel model (core team et al) wasn't really open/democratic like Linux...
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