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To: zeugma

Mac or Linux is fine by me: the FreeBDS kernel (underlies OS X) and Minux (a crippled version of Unix for Intel chips created as a basis for student exercises, and fleshed out by Linus Torvalds to create Linux) were both produced by category theorists, so I've got a guild-loyalty to both.


26 posted on 12/30/2005 7:53:26 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David
Just about any unix works for me, as it suits the way I work better than anything else I've found. I just wish we could do better than X though.
28 posted on 12/30/2005 8:07:34 AM PST by zeugma (Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
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To: The_Reader_David
Minux (a crippled version of Unix for Intel chips created as a basis for student exercises, and fleshed out by Linus Torvalds to create Linux)

1. Minux is pretty good now, highly robust with a small footprint. 2. Linus didn't flesh it out to make Linux. Minux was his platform used to create Linux, and Linux used some ideas from Minix.

29 posted on 12/30/2005 8:17:59 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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