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Linux Is Obsolete

2025-03-07 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@Daktyl198 2025-03-08

Seems like a ton of commenters don't realize the post they're reading is from 1992...

644 12 replies
@SimGunther 2025-03-07

It's over -> it's so over -> we're back -> we're so back This is the natural cycle of the average Linux user

550 12 replies
@shenawy04 2025-03-07

Andrew Tanenbaum is a genius and a very respectable professor; Torvalds himself mentioned that Tanenbaum's own book and operating system, MINIX, launched him to new heights. He was just wrong this time, but this does not undermine his own intelligence and genius.

414 27 replies
@vsolyomi 2025-03-07

Wow, it's THE Tanenbaum. He's like 80 now...

392 17 replies
@neonfuz_ 2025-03-07

There's an entire wikipedia article about this debate, the title is "Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate" It's notable that Tanenbaum wrote MINIX

288 15 replies
@droidomz 2025-03-07

hot take in 1992.

64 19 replies
@dragnosmz 2025-03-07

That chat is the Unix Genesis, In the beginning, there was chaos… and a thousand lines of passive-aggressive arguments 😆

41 1 replies
@iruatlocalhost 2025-03-07

Parts pf MACH lives on the MacOS and iOS kernels. The binary format used by Apple is also named MACH-O.

36 4 replies
@dawngunz 2025-03-08

"I'm assuming it's an operating system that _actually_ died, unlike Unix" BAD NEWS, there's a reason why MacOS binaries are called Mach binaries :D

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@WillFuI 2025-03-08

I did a skill issue joke at work and got written up what a time to be alive

13 1 replies

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