Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing

An anonymous reader points out an interesting, detailed interview with Andrew Tanenbaum at Linuxfr.org; Tanenbaum holds forth on the current state of MINIX, licensing decisions, and the real reason he believes that Linux caught on just when he "thought BSD was going to take over the world." ("I think Linux succeeded against BSD, which was a stable mature system at the time simply because BSDI got stuck in a lawsuit and was effectively stopped for several years.")

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Re:Disagree

[drinkypoo]

This is a troll, right? filling up root and crashing is not a feature, it's a bug, and it's one shared by most Unixlikes. We stop viruses from spreading with capabilities-based security. Well, we should. Mostly we don't. OSX has capabilities now but they mostly don't use them. Linux has had capabilities for forever now and we still don't use them. I'd be shocked and amazed if FreeBSD doesn't have capabilities.