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Article #4295Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Robert Uhl ruhl
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:42
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:42
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Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes: > > > The _point_ is that it's possible, and therefor that the GNU tools > > are not required for a usable system. It might not be what either > > of us would consider particularly useful, but it's possible. > > What crap. The `_point_', as you call it, is that what you actually > have, in reality, on the CD in front of you, has GNU bits & pieces > from a fundamental level up (glibc, fileutils, textutils,...), > therefore it's fair enough to call it GNU/Linux. It was stated that a Linux system is impossible without the GNU utilities. Having shown that this is false, you change the tack, arguing that all actual usable Linux systems are distributed with GNU utilities. Well, duh. All actual usable Linux systems are also distributed with a plethora of _other_ utilities. So, I ask again (expecting no answer), should it be called GNU/BSD/MIT/AOL/IBMLinux? If not, why not? > And it allows you to do what? The point is that you can substitute > orange-juice to flush your bog if you want, but there aren't that > many, indeed any well-known, non-glibc-based nor GNU-using linux > distros out there. And there aren't that many, indeed any, well-known GNU-and-Linux only distros out there. So why single out the GNU project for credit? Sheesh, some folks really must have small, sad lives to care about this sort of thing. I daresay that the FSF's goals would be furthered far better by writing a BitKeeper replacement, rather than arguing that the GNU Project should be singled out above all other for honour and adoration in a name. -- Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> I really have to hand it to Fox this time, they've hit an all new low. And I just love new lows. They remind me that progress is growth, and growth is a two way street. --Rick Felice
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