minix - tannenbaum won!

[Georgi Guninski]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:07:19AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:02:05AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> > It's funny looking back at the ancient flame war between Tannenbaum &
> > Torvalds... and now it turns out there is a copy of Minix running at
> > ring -3 in every Intel CPU out there! Sweet fucking christmas.
> > 
> > Slashdot coverage:
> > 
> > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/07/1041236/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system
> > 
> >

Is minix so better than some BSD? AFAICT it has much lesser user base
and is less tested.

And why google chose the linux kernel for android? The BSD license
allows closing the source.