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michael
on from the oh-christmas-tree dept.
BigFire writes "Professor Tanenbaum responds to the slashdot effect and a small critique of Ken Brown's forthcoming book in his followup. A small gem is where he disclosed that Ken Brown can't multiply simple positive integers."
Re:Pure genius!
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Can I get my pr0n affiliate site to respond to the slashdot effect and get a front-page story? Pretty please?
Ob. Hitler reference about Seinfeld and Tanenbaum
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Anonymous Coward
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Juden raus
Re:Little Help?
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Who is Professor Tanenbaum? Who is Ken Brown?
You not knowing who Ken Brown is is quite normal.
You not knowing who Tanenbaum is shows you're the typical Slashdotter who doesn't know shit but feel like posting anyway.
perhaps the occasional link to everything2.com
How about you do it yourself? hell, 5 seconds of googling will tell you who Tanenbaum is. You could have educated yourself in less time than it took you to post your question.
This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me.
this man's ego dwarfs many people's entire sets of matching luggage
You're right
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This is an utter disgrace, Hitler wasn't that bad.
Re:Tanenbaum is being disingenious
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Man, fuck Microsoft!
Re:Changed opinion
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where, ten years after he(Tanenbaum) first had this argument, he still feels obliged to rag on Linux's design as a monolithic kernel as a bad design decision. This from a man who describes true multitasking and multi-threaded I/O as "a performance hack."
Bitter much?
Linus also bought a book from him a few years ago and requested his signature. He scoffed at him and looked the other way.
Actions speak louder than words.
Someone in an academic environment supposed to be open to idea's and non baised. Most though have ego's including Tanenbaum which blind them.
In his website he mentions that he prefers an OS that is %20 slower because a microkernel OS is more stable and reliable.
Funny, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and As/400 have uptimes that measure in years if you do not include security patching.
There is no proof that a microkernel is all that in terms of being super reliable or stable. MacOSX is less stable than a macrokernels like Linux according to those who use it as a server.
He is biased and probably does not belong in the academic community for that reason.
it sounds to me like Tannenbaum meant whatever disparagement he could, both to Linus directly and Linux as a system. He refused to comment, except under pressure, about "the Brown Book" even though he knew what was said in it and gave his implicit approval, because the book was still under "embargo" -- meaning it wasn't on the shelves in the Netherlands yet, not that there was any legal holdup or non-disclosure, or possibility that he would leak material that could potentially be banned.
Slashdot Mirror
Can I get my pr0n affiliate site to respond to the slashdot effect and get a front-page story? Pretty please?
Juden raus
Who is Professor Tanenbaum? Who is Ken Brown?
You not knowing who Ken Brown is is quite normal.
You not knowing who Tanenbaum is shows you're the typical Slashdotter who doesn't know shit but feel like posting anyway.
perhaps the occasional link to everything2.com
How about you do it yourself? hell, 5 seconds of googling will tell you who Tanenbaum is. You could have educated yourself in less time than it took you to post your question.
this man's ego dwarfs many people's entire sets of matching luggage
This is an utter disgrace, Hitler wasn't that bad.
Man, fuck Microsoft!
where, ten years after he(Tanenbaum) first had this argument, he still feels obliged to rag on Linux's design as a monolithic kernel as a bad design decision. This from a man who describes true multitasking and multi-threaded I/O as "a performance hack."
Bitter much?
Linus also bought a book from him a few years ago and requested his signature. He scoffed at him and looked the other way.
Actions speak louder than words.
Someone in an academic environment supposed to be open to idea's and non baised. Most though have ego's including Tanenbaum which blind them.
In his website he mentions that he prefers an OS that is %20 slower because a microkernel OS is more stable and reliable.
Funny, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and As/400 have uptimes that measure in years if you do not include security patching.
There is no proof that a microkernel is all that in terms of being super reliable or stable. MacOSX is less stable than a macrokernels like Linux according to those who use it as a server.
He is biased and probably does not belong in the academic community for that reason.
http://saveie6.com/
it sounds to me like Tannenbaum meant whatever disparagement he could, both to Linus directly and Linux as a system. He refused to comment, except under pressure, about "the Brown Book" even though he knew what was said in it and gave his implicit approval, because the book was still under "embargo" -- meaning it wasn't on the shelves in the Netherlands yet, not that there was any legal holdup or non-disclosure, or possibility that he would leak material that could potentially be banned.