A few months after Linus Torvalds released the first version of Linux, he found himself arguing publicly with someone whose work had helped shape the project in the first place. If you’re fuzzy on the terminology, what the Linux kernel actually does is central to the argument that followed because Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum fundamentally disagreed over how that core of an operating system should be designed.
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