-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The short short version. Linux is just the kernel. the GNU part is the rest of the OS. So GNU/Linux is the technical term.
Jon wrote: > Heh...many people don't know much about the history. > > There's so much political pain surrounding it that everyone's scared to > talk about it. However, the 25-cent tour looks something like Linus had > a kernel and no OS and the FSF crew had all the important parts of an OS > but no kernel. Since they were all licensed openly, people started > throwing them together to create an OS. > > Of course there's more to it...but nothing really interesting. > > J > > Mitchell Brown wrote: >> :P Man, it'd be great if I had any idea what you were talking about... >> truly. >> All I can say is: it looks like I'm glad I didn't write it :D >> >> On 11/13/06, *Jon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> Looks nice. However, I can only imagine the fits RMS would go into >> over >> this: >> >> "Linux is a free computer Operating System >> developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 while he >> was a student at Helsinki University in Finland." >> >> I know because I, personally, once emailed RMS and asked him if he >> would >> talk to a bunch of "Linux" users. After soundly beating me about the >> head and shoulders with the GNU bat, he agreed. Good history lesson >> learned that day. I think it should be rewritten not for any >> political >> reason, but because it's just plain wrong. >> >> I just know this is going to start a flame war... >> >> J >> >> >> Mitchell Brown wrote: >> > I have made the modifications >> > >> > http://untitled1.ca/clug/brochure.pdf >> > >> > -- >> > pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> >> > Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 >> 5CCF >> > 9091 C422 >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > clug-talk mailing list >> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> > **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> -- >> -- >> http://www.jonwatson.ca >> +1.403.875.6048 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php >> <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php>) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF >> 9091 C422 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFWVT8wRXgH3rKGfMRAnsqAJ0fdzchKvz5v4k7IVufSuWmoTFmfgCeKs3P wQYqq0usNHVZTrTXXXUAc84= =q+sF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
