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Most of the inspiration early on came from, from SunOS
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which was what um,
I was using at the university at the time.
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[ Which University? ]
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University of Helsinki in Finland.
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From 1991 to about 1993 was really
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I guess the infancy period of Linux.
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That was when it was still only alpha or beta quality;
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it was relatively unstable.
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Although, even then it was a good deal more stable
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than a lot of what are now called
"production" operating systems.
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Linus used the traditional
tried-and-true method of writing one program
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that does the job,
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and he got it to work.
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quickly in fact faster than
I would have thought was possible.
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The term for it is "monolithic",
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which means that basically
the OS itself is one entity, indivisible.
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uh, while in the microkernel,
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the, the operating system kernel is actually
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uh, just a collection of servers that
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do different things and then they have a common protocol
:30:26
for doing communication between themselves.
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[ So why is that... the GNU project that's had
so much lead-time, that's been doing this,
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Why...Why is it that he was able to kinda
come in at the tail end so to speak ]
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Well we actually started the
GNU Hurd not long before he started Linux.
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And it happened though we chose a design
that's a very advanced design
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in terms of the power gives you
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but also turns out to be very hard to debug.