Oh god, not this again.This is the anniversary of Linux - the announcement of the kernel project, and has nothing to do with GNU. GNU was announced on September 27th, 1983. So this is unrelated.
Furthermore, note how Linus says he has ported bash and gcc from Minix, which in turn were ported from GNU. So shouldn't this be GNU/ MINIX/Linux?
So, with that reasoning, shouldn't I be using GNU/MINIX/Linux/SuSE/ OpenSuse/11?
I hardly think the over complication of names is going to help promote Linux in any way. Just see the recent article released by the government which talks about the GRIMP.
Keith On 25 Aug 2008, at 10:06, Jean Azzopardi wrote:
One mistake : GNU/Linux. Ramon Casha wrote:On the 25th August 1991 the following message appeared on the newsgroup /comp.os.minix/: /Hello everybody out there using minix- / /I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem due to practical reasons)among other things. //I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, and I'dlike to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) / /Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / *Happy Birthday Linux!!!* Ramon Casha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list_______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
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