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by jestinjoy1 4159 days ago
On the portability aspect why Minix is better than Linux? I didn't get that point.
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icebraining 4159 days ago
IIRC, Linux at the time had plenty of i368 specific code, while Minix could be compiled to multiple architectures.
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Narishma 4159 days ago
I believe at that time, Linux only ran on x86.
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