Old farts and new Linux

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:46, duncan brown wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------
> Understatement of the century:
> "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing
> a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be
> big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT
> clones"
>          - Linus Torvalds, August 1991
> --------------------------------------------------
Several years ago I was arguing with a friend about Linux becomming a
major networking operating system (circa RH 5.1). He said it never would
happen especially with Novel in existence.
Now am I being feeble minded, or is there some irony here?  
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>