linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:57:46 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Carlo Wood <carlo@...noe.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@...llo.be>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 12:02:22AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Now if you want really innovative OS work go look in the lab or at
> > projects most people have never heard of and don't run.
> 
> Hey, I heard of one. I got a few friends that are sitting
> in an IRC channel and have been working on a complete new
> OS from scratch for like 10 years now (kernel, filesystem,
> graphics drivers, libraries - everything). I consider them
> to be totally nuts of course.  When I ask them why are you
> still doing this? Can't you use linux? Then the answer is
> that there are still companies interested in operating
> systems like that, precisely because they are not well-
> known. It would be pretty hard to exploit vulnerabilities
> in such a system (or that is their explanation anyway).

Can you name such companies so that I'll never accidentally buy some of 
their stocks?  ;-)

There are already more than enough operating systems available that are 
less popular than Linux...

E.g. a good combination of less popular than Linux and a very good 
security reputation would be OpenBSD.

> Carlo Wood

cu
Adrian

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