11 Jan
2001
11 Jan
'01
12:21 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
Linux should be and is sometimes still properly
referred to as GNU/Linux.
Why? Linux is the kernel. GNU are the tools that happen to have been
compiled and distributed with it on many distributions. Would you call
HP/UX "GNU-HP/UX", or Solaris "Gnu/Solaris", or any BSD variant
"GNU/xBSD", just because GNU tools have been compiled and distributed with
those? Of course not!
The GNU folks had nearly everything complete and right
but the kernel.
Linus wrote that - a very important piece of work, but hardly an operating
system. Linus gets more credit than he deserves in this respect, but I
can't fault him for it - he never asked for it, and possibly to his
personal detriment, he hasn't exploited it.
Bullshit. See above.
It was really freaky. There was all this software and
no useful kernel
and then out of the blue Linus Sh*ts this diamond. Whiskytangofoxtrot??!!
What good are Unix tools without a Unix kernel?
Metaphoricaly, Microsoft is flying off the top of a
very steep ramp.
Either their momentum carries them to the other side, or there is going to
be a crash. In between, and beyond the ramps, stand millions of
well-earned enemies spraying 'silly string' at it while it is in flight.
Good. Everyone pays thier debts sometime.
Wow, poetry on classiccmp. Who woulda thunk?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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