Richard Stallman comenzo su proyecto GNU cuando no pudo reparar el software de un impresora, mientras que Linus Torvalds re-escribio el nucleo de
minix porque no estaba a favor de pagar por obtener el software que su profesor le obligaba a comprar.
Mass., a leading provider of FTTx solutions for HFC cable systems, has unveiled its latest product, the
miniX, an intelligent outdoor fiber to coax media converter that facilitates cost-effective delivery of Carrier Ethernet services in low penetration scenarios where only one or two end customers will be initially activated at a specific location.
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"We still needed two to three times the staff to handle all the corporate offers that were coming in," said Casey
Minix, interim director of corporate partnerships & cause marketing at ARC, of the days following Hurricane Katrina.
In 1985, Andrew Tannenbaum, a professor at Vrije University in Amsterdam, wrote
Minix, a UNIX-compatible operating system for personal computers.
As an alternative, Torvalds decided to develop his own operating system, based on an educational version of Unix called
Minix. Torvalds consulted with fellow hackers over the Internet about some defects.
Directors include Mark Nelson, Adam Mohammadbhoy, Barbara Levin, Eric Bruce Angelina Colonnesso, James
Minix, and Gilbert Smith, Jr.
Inspired by
Minix, an instructional version of Unix, Linux grew rapidly, attracting thousands of developers.
Torvalds' work was originally based on a Unix-compatible OS microkernel called
Minix, created by Andrew Tanenbaum for practical education of Unix, but evolved under the name Linux as an OS kernel in its own right.