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The whole flame war between the two is worth a read [1], at least for historical reasons; very different points of view. And while Linus disagreed with Tanenbaum's POV, I Tanenbaum's criticism to Linux made it actually better.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI#9f3c...



My favorite thing about that whole thread is the unanimous consensus among everyone involved that we will all be running GNU/Hurd in 2 years so these stopgap OSes are just academic hobbies.


They meant 2 centuries, for the while well have to deal with these stopgap academic hobbies OSes /j




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