Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:05:11 -0500 From: "Mike Avery" <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Interesting comments on Linux from one of the fathers of Unix Message-ID: <199905050423.XAA24111@hostigos.otherwhen.com> In-Reply-To: <372F5A4A.E09421DB@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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A friend sent this to me, and I thought it might be of interest... I hope it hasn't been quoted here too often already.... from "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson" http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any thoughts on this phenomenon? Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft=97a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically. My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go. --- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: Metaphors be with you! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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