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Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?
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David Kelly |
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Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers? |
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Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:33:40 -0500 |
On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:09 PM, CSV4ME2 wrote:
First Richard S. cs. created GNU in the eighties,
than there was Linus T creating Linux in the nineties
and later on glueing GNU unto the Linux kernel giving us a nice UNIX
clone.
No, Stallman failed to create GNU. GNU was to be Stallman's OS. GCC is
only the C compiler created for GNU. GNU recursively stands for Gnu is
Not Unix.
Stallman's vision did not appear until an upstart in Finland made a
workable kernel. It just so happened that he used the compiler
Stallman championed. Then others started packaging "distributions"
which included gcc and other components intended for GNU. BSD
components were also used. The mix depended all upon whoever was
packaging the distribution. This is why Linux is only the kernel, not
the OS.
When GNU failed to produce a complete OS, Stallman lays claim to Linux
by trying to label it GNU/Linux.
I quit trying to use Linux back in the Slackware days. Was too
unstable. One still had to collect patchkits from various places to
make it run properly, and then patches often conflicted and nothing
ran properly. After crashes trashed my filesystem the 3rd time in one
week requiring the 3rd complete re-install I tried FreeBSD 2.0.0-
RELEASE. It too wasn't perfect, but it ran reliably doing the tasks
Linux would not run reliably. Last week one of my FreeBSD boxes
reached 730 days of uptime, and is still running as an in-house email,
web server, and SVN repository.
Composed and sent via MacOS X.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, (continued)
- [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Yavor Doganov, 2008/10/06
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Steven D'Aprano, 2008/10/06
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, David Kelly, 2008/10/06
- [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Yavor Doganov, 2008/10/07
- [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Duncan, 2008/10/07
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Chris Metzler, 2008/10/07
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Joe Zeff, 2008/10/07
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, CSV4ME2, 2008/10/07
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?,
David Kelly <=
- [Pan-users] [OT] Re: clearing headers?, Bernt Hansson, 2008/10/08
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, CSV4ME2, 2008/10/08
- [Pan-users] Re: Re: clearing headers?, Роман Донченко, 2008/10/08
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Zan Lynx, 2008/10/07
- [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Greg Lee, 2008/10/07
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Steven D'Aprano, 2008/10/07
- [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?, Yavor Doganov, 2008/10/08
- [Pan-users] OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?, Duncan, 2008/10/08
- [Pan-users] Re: OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?, Yavor Doganov, 2008/10/09
- [Pan-users] Re: OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?, Duncan, 2008/10/09