Heart of Linux - part 1
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When a Finnish computer student sat down and wrote a new kernel, his goal wasn't to make the best OS possible to run 3D-accelerated applications on. When RMS was inspired to begin the GNU project, it wasn't so that he could make a suite of applications that would make it trivially easy to integrate social networking sites into your desktop environment.
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Linux does these things today, and that's a testament to how flexible and well thought-out the core tools were right from the start. But the core code that was written by the early Linux users was not created with the goal of creating anything like what you see on a modern Gnome or KDE desktop.
What they were creating was a bunch of code that they and hackers like them could use to get stuff done, quickly and easily. Tools that could be made to work with each other so well that you could create entirely new functionality just by combining the existing stuff in new and interesting ways. Full Story |
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