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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:47:22 +0200
From: Javier Sedano <jsedano@dit.upm.es>
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Frank Zsitvay wrote:
> 
>   For the novice, tinkering with Linux innerds can be quite
> intimidating.  Minix is still small enough that a single
> person can grasp all of it in a reasonable period of time.
> Then later they can move on to something bigger and more
> complex when they feel they are ready, if they want to.

	What kind of novice? A Novice User, Admin or Programmer will feel more
confortable with Linux, or even FreeBSD, since they are easier ot
install and administrate (within a limit) and provide a lot of tools to
code. Only a Novice Kernel-Hacker will feel more confortable with Minix
(I do), but that is more that enough. What I mean is that most novices
don't even know what the kernel is.

	Well... that, and the fact that Minix runs in my old 8088/640kB ;-)

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