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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
Date: 9 Mar 2002 09:46:00 GMT
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:31:12 -0500, Marin David Condic <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[> wrote:
> Well, by that reasoning, Linux should have never been able to get going.
> From bottom dead center, it had no useful apps or geek appeal or robustness.
> It had to get started from *somewhere* to have anything to interest geeks in
> developing things for it and it took time before it became something stable
> and reliable, right?

It was a free Unix system for the x86, which a lot of people were
hungering for, especially after the problems with Minix and BSD. It also
came with a decent selection of GNU utils for application to start with.

-- 
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
"It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. 
If you don't have it you're on the other side." 
- K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)