doug> The joys of project management! About which I know very little.

I only noticed this because the IEEE......... (which i joined for a short year,

then they keep sending me weekly/monthly stuff for free on email,

plus they keep begging me to re-join) sent me links to.....

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-with-linus-torvalds?bt_alias=b%27eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiM2FkMzFiNWUtOTAzMS00MjU2LTgwMWItMjgzNmYyYjkzZjI3In0=%27

doug> My favorite take-home (one comment/reply to the line below said: "everyone knows that!" )
Linux is a kernel, not an entire operating system.

but in the article, Linus got quoted saying...

If I had known what I know today when I started, I would never have had the chutzpah to start writing my own operating system: You need a certain amount of naïveté to think that you can do it.