Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 12:30:36 +0100 | From | Kernel Stuffs <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
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On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:33:23AM +0100, alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 1999, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > Ken Thompson is interviewed in this month's _IEEE Computer_ magazine > > on UNIX and developments. At one point during the interview, Computer > > asks him what he thinks of Linux. Here's his response (any typos are > > mine, and I show italics via <em> and </em>): > > Oh haha... I can't believe this guy. Hahaha what a joke this guy is. > > Unreliable and Linux in the same sentence? He must be on some really good > drugs, and if so I want some! > Hmmm, seemed to me he would be looking at a distro equivalent to RedHat. Try telling anyone that linux is reliable after showing them some versions of gnome :-)
Unfortuneately because everyone calls the whole system Linux that because an app fails the kernel gets tarred with the same brush.
Graeme
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