I was being a troll :P Keith Vassallo wrote: > 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'd >>> like 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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