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The Evolution of Linux
Taiko writes: "Kerneltrap.org has posted some of the more interesting messages from a recent kernel mailing list discussion. It started with a post on proper indentation, but turned into something a bit more. There are some posts by Linus and Alan Cox about the nature of design, computer science, Linux development, evolution, and more. Quite interesting and funny."
Most people seem to have this misunderstanding. Natural selection IS NOT EVOLUTION! Most people the study natural selection agree that it is more or less right.
The big difference between natuaral selection and evolution is that in natural selection you lose information (genes that aren't needed in that environment become the minority) Where as evolution says that we make information from nothing!
If you look at linux you can see that PEOPLE are making it then natural selection is killing off the parts that aren't perfect. If you take out the people that make it then linux doesn't exists.
A better example would be that you bought a brand new (clean)computer and turned it on and off 1 billion times and expected it to boot in linux/dos/windows because the bits might randomly produce an operating system. When you look at it this way it sounds crazy.
Basically the point I'm trying to say is that every operating system was made by a creator(s) and then refined by natural selection. I don't mide when people have opposing views as long as they are informed views.> Evolution
NOTHING -> SOMETHING -> NATURAL SELECTOIN + A LARGE NUMBER -> US
Linux
LINUS + PREVIOUS CODE -> NATURAL SELECTION + CODERS + LINUX TODAY
There is a big difference.