[Duke Nukum]

Actually, he got the basics from his college textbook, which had Minix, itself a UNIX clone written from scratch by professor Andrew Tanenbaum, a friend of the creators of UNIX.

So, LUNIX is a rip-off of a rip-off, then. Very good, since Windows is a rip-off of a rip-off too. Except it doesn't suck as bad as LUNIX. Except for all the viruses and malware the jealous LUNIX geeks write it's a hardly noticeable level of suckiness.

But, realistically, I don't think there will ever be an O/S that doesn't suck, it's the nature of the machines. Maybe, one day, if there are organic computers that write their own O/S based on their biological function, that might be as close to zero suckiness as it can get, but it's probably a long way off if it happens at all.

[antiRepublicrat]

So, LUNIX is a rip-off of a rip-off, then.

More like a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off (FMS > CTSS > MULTICS > UNIX > MINIX > Linux). However, Linux is only a very loose "rip-off" of MINIX, since it doesn't have the microkernel architecture.

[Caesar Soze]

Dukie, stop howling about "rip-offs." The PC BIOS is a rip-off of the IBM PC. MacOS is a rip-off of Unix and the Xerox Alto. Windows is a ripoff of MacOS, VMS, CP/M, etc. Everything's a rip-off of some computationally pure platonic ideal. We get it. Find something else to rant about.

[Constantine XIII]

No one writes very many large programs from scratch, regardless of what it does.