Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 12:55:32 +0530 (IST) | From | Rahul Siddharthan <> | Subject | Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
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I saw this mail on another list and thought I'd pass it on here. Since it's not the first time I've seen attacks on linux's reliability I thought it's worth bringing it up. I dont know whether an electronic version of this interview exists...
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Ken Thompson is interviewed in this month's _IEEE Computer_ magazine on UNIX and developments. At one point during the interview, Computer asks him what he thinks of Linux. Here's his response (any typos are mine, and I show italics via <em> and </em>):
"Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft -- a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source, and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically. My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is <em>really</em> unreliable but Linux is <em>worse</em>. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go."
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