If you are a Linux enthusiast but have never heard of this debate then I think you have missed something really interesting. The basis of this debate were the allegations made by Andrew S. Tanenbaum ( an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Also best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes ) on Linux portability and kernel architecture in general. The debate was started in 1992 on the Usenet discussion group comp.os.minix. It was a heated debate that was joined by Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) himself and...