Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:10:05 +0300 (MSK) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? |
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > implementation", no ? And my point was that why we need Linux is we want > > JUST unix ??? There are already exists "just unix". Even free one (*BSD). > > Of course we should not stuff Linux with additions without thinking. > > That is the real danger. There is a big opportunity to play. Up until this > point we got most of where we are by looking back over 30 years of OS design > and getting to a similar place. Our API's have years of hindsight for free. > > To borrow a quote from Vern Schryver: > " It's not that the suggestions are not good ideas. That problem is that > committees cannot say no to good ideas, while the one thing that matters > above all in any design task is saying no to almost everything. " > > Linux-kernel is the committee in this case.. > That's why the END WORD for any subject belond NOT to committee (lklm) but to Linus -- person who CAN say no to good ideas is they are not good enough :-)
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