Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 07:36 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes As a programmer and manager of embedded software products for a living, I think that operating system programming is so much fun that it will eventually be outlawed. I've previously published two articles on OSNews, So, you want to write an operating system and Climbing the kernel mountain, and tried to summarize my experience in designing operating system kernels as well as technical traps that can be easily avoided.
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by Eu on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 10:17 UTC

When Linus began writing Linux, there wasn't a Free kernel available of the quality of Linux 2.6.

When Linus began writing Linux, the expectation of what a a kernel and the OS that sits on top were supposed to do was very different from what we expect of both today.

I think technical merit continues to drive the Linux kernel development more than any concern with profitability.