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From: JEDIDIAH on 28 Jun 2010 18:22
On 2010-06-28, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
>
>
> On Monday 28 June 2010 16:25 in alt.os.linux, somebody identifying as
> JEDIDIAH wrote...
>
>> On 2010-06-28, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 27 June 2010 23:13 in alt.os.linux, somebody identifying as
>>> TJ wrote...
>>>
>>>> On 06/27/2010 12:23 PM, Aragorn wrote:
>>>>
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>>> If you break that down into the Linux kernel and the GNU userland
>>> portion, then Linux itself started off as a hobby/study project that
>>> quickly grew far beyond its original objectives, and the GNU
>>> operating
>>
>> Nope. It was always intended to satisfy the desktop use case
>> aspects of the person that created it. The idea that Linux was never
>> intended to be a desktop OS is a bit revisionist.
>
> No, it isn't, because it wasn't. However, UNIX systems have for a long

Linus built Linux as his personal computing OS, period.

He did this because he found MS-DOS lacking, he found Minix lacking
and because his history in computing made him accustomed to building his
own software.

[deletia]

The idea that Linux was never intended as an "end users" system is
false. It was created for that purpose. It was adopted by people early
on for that purpose.

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