22 Feb
2017
22 Feb
'17
9:45 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
That was pretty early, Ron. I betcha if you tried it
now (or 10 years
ago) things would be different.
I think that is true. But from my point of view "linux winning" was not
necessarily "linux was better at the time." I think it was a lot of factors.
When I got to Los Alamos in 1999, it was still a tossup between the BSDs
and Linux as to "which is better." Nevertheless, for lots of reasons, in
1998 (the same year I found Linux to be less reliable over time) Los Alamos
had cast its lot with Linux, for all kinds of reasons.