"Eric Raymond claimed that Linus hasn't actually written Linux from scratch, but rather reused source code of MINIX itself to have working codebase. As the development progressed, MINIX code was gradually phased out completely."
"Linus Torvalds (http://www.tuxedo.org/˜esr/faqs/linus), for example, didn’t actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system for PC clones. Eventually all the Minix code went away or was completely rewritten—but while it was there, it provided scaffolding for the infant that would eventually become Linux."
I was there. I watched Linux from the beginning, including the minix-list discussions.
The only thing Linus 'copied' (rather, modelled) was the initial directory tree layout and some of the names of the core module filenames - none of the code.
Linus was interested in MINIX, no question - and motivated to write his own kernel - but he literally did not fork MINIX.
In "History of Linux" this falsehood is addressed - and it has to be said is amazing that you are parroting even still today:
For the last statement, Wikipedia disagrees:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minix&oldid=11846...
"Eric Raymond claimed that Linus hasn't actually written Linux from scratch, but rather reused source code of MINIX itself to have working codebase. As the development progressed, MINIX code was gradually phased out completely."
quoting "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
> https://monoskop.org/images/e/e0/Raymond_Eric_S_The_Cathedra...
for this statement. On p. 24 you can read:
"Linus Torvalds (http://www.tuxedo.org/˜esr/faqs/linus), for example, didn’t actually try to write Linux from scratch. Instead, he started by reusing code and ideas from Minix, a tiny Unix-like operating system for PC clones. Eventually all the Minix code went away or was completely rewritten—but while it was there, it provided scaffolding for the infant that would eventually become Linux."