Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of OWL\'s not Windows or Linux

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Your project was approved. I suggest that you expand the acronym into
OWL's not Windows or gnuLinux since it's more accurate although it does not
quite match. The problem of comparing windows to linux is that you compare
an operating system with a kernel. Also it leads people to think that GNU/Linux
does not exist as such. 

        Thanks in advance,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Pollet Fabien @lias ArnaK, Inc. <address@hidden> described the package as 
 > follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: OWL\'s not Windows or Linux
 > System name: owl
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > This project, called OWL which stand for OWL\'s not Windows or Linux (the 
 > old name of the project is DreamOS), is a project of french operating system.
 > 
 > The project is born with articles in a french magazine on OS.
 > 
 > We try to code a 32-bits OS for PC/Intel and we wrote some documentations in 
 > french.
 > 
 > This project is open to anybody but exists only in French.
 > 
 > We want to do a microkernel OS and we want to write all parts of the OS by 
 > ourself.
 > 
 > The main point about OWL is that it\'s only a pedagogic project : we want to 
 > learn how works an OS.
 > 
 > The project OWL already exists : it was (is) hosted by SourceForge under the 
 > name dreamos.
 > The OWL\'s page is http://www.owl-os.fr.st and the OWL\'s documentation is 
 > available on http://www.owl-doc.fr.st
 > 
 > A tarball is available on http://dreamos.sourceforge.net/files/ but it\'s 
 > only a draft and it\'s not very advanced (there are only a basis scheduler, 
 > a memory manager, a little console manager, some detections  and a lot of 
 > currently unfunctional codes : not over or not integrated to the rest of the 
 > code).
 > 
 > There is also an image of a floppy disk with grub in which the kernel must 
 > be copied after compiling and before booting on the floppy disk.
 > 

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