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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

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304 points Bogdanp | 3 comments | 14 Sep 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.009s | source
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lordleft ◴[14 Sep 25 16:28 UTC] No.45241113[source]▶
I will never not find this kind of project incredibly impressive. It’s interesting to think that Linux, after all, is really just the kernel — and yet getting that work done paved the way to getting an open source version of Unix installed on billions of machines. Great stuff!
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diath ◴[14 Sep 25 17:45 UTC] No.45241727[source]▶
It's even more funny and amusing when you remember that in the initial release mail for Linux, Torvals said "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu".

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/Sw...

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1. chuckadams ◴[14 Sep 25 18:16 UTC] No.45242022{3}[source]▶
He's also referred to Linux as "the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators".
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2. Y_Y ◴[14 Sep 25 20:09 UTC] No.45242827[source]▶
> It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators.

> (Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator.)

http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Linux_Quotes.html

That's the best reference I can find, but even if it's totally legit it doesn't make any sense to me.

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3. throwaway82332 ◴[14 Sep 25 20:35 UTC] No.45243012[source]▶
Perhaps it's a reference to how Emacs does "everything" and some has also joked that Emacs is an OS with a text editor