On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:51, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > Then why are 'Apache Foundation', 'BSD', and the various other major > contributors silent? DOS filename limitations: 'GNULINUX.BIN' </joke> > > The Debian project both writes and pronounces "Linux" as "GNU/Linux". > > Yes, another bit of Debian zealotry that annoys me. Because clearly your brand of zealotry is correct. > Step (1) after logging into new debian system: > echo > /etc/issue; echo > /etc/issue.net > > If you aren't going to give credit where it's due, don't try to give > it at all. How does adding 'GNU/' _reduce_ the credit given to the kernel? Seriously, did emacs traumatize you at some point? > Has anyone considered that *GNU* wouldn't be much of anywhere without > Linux? Yeah - GNU has. They were in the process of writing a kernel when Linux came along: "The initial goal of a free Unix-like operating system has been achieved. By the 1990s, we had either found or written all the major components except one--the kernel. Then Linux, a free kernel, was developed by Linus Torvalds." Were Linux not released - (IMO) in this alternate universe, kernel hackers would eventually form around GNU or ast, and a free kernel would be released. -- -dave Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota http://www.math.umn.edu PGP/GPG Fingerprint: C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 (visit http://www.gnupg.org for more information) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050310/20c5270d/attachment.pgp