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Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el. |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:28:33 +0200 |
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"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> The changes are ok (presuming they work), but there is a problem in
> the comments:
>
> ! ;; There is at present support for Linux and Darwin.
>
> Darwin is a complete operating system.
Since when? AFAIK, the complete system is called MacOS.
> To include "Linux" in that list implies that it too is a complete
> operating system.
But the communication is just with the kernel, via the proc file
system.
> That's unfair to the GNU Project, so we won't say do that.
I can't see that naming the kernel when clearly the kernel is meant is
problematic.
The kernel of MacOS is Darwin. The kernel of GNU/Linux is Linux.
> The current comment says "Linux" because it refers specifically to
> the kernel and its version numbers. (There are no generally
> meaningful version numbers for the GNU/Linux system as a whole.)
Well, I don't get it. What do you want to call the MacOS kernel if
not Darwin?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/02
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., David Kastrup, 2005/07/02
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/03
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/03
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., David Kastrup, 2005/07/03
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Ken Raeburn, 2005/07/03
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/04
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Arne Jørgensen, 2005/07/04
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/04
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- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/04
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Ken Raeburn, 2005/07/04
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Ken Raeburn, 2005/07/04
- Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el., Lute Kamstra, 2005/07/06