The History of Linux and Minix: Rumors Dismissed

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well, the obvious answer is linus... (atleast he did the kernel, GNU coders coded lots of linux too)

but there were rumors going on that linus copied code off of minix.
i found a nice history articile made by the coder of minix.
nothing revolutionary about it.
he dissmisses these rumors, but it was pretty interesting to read, this guy writes well.

so here it is:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/

enjoy.
 
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I thought that it was common knowledge that Linus was a user of Minix but say many ways in which it could be improved then made considerable improvements.
 
Meanwhile, in 1991, another kernel was begun as a hobby by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds while attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally used Minix on his own computer, a simplified Unix-like system written by Andrew Tanenbaum for teaching operating system design. However, Tanenbaum did not permit others to extend his operating system, leading Torvalds to create a replacement for Minix.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
 
lol cool i learn something new everyday. I thought Linux was name after the programmer or user. hehe