I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment?
No, because in that case the whole Windows system is still there.
GNU/Linux means the GNU system
J. Grant wrote:
I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment?
(Debian) GNU/Linux is an Linux-Distribution using GNU-GPL. GNU/Windows
in analogy should
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:12:56PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? This would be good publicity for
the GNU tools
On Monday 15 April 2002 04:22, J. Grant wrote:
Hello cgf,
The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not
entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts straight.
Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the
Lindows case this
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 10:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not
entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts
straight.
So, sending this email RMS was a
Quoth JG:
Hello RMS,
I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. ...
I think we should all refer to his Stallman-ness, as GNU/RMS. As for
Cygwin, I think the
RedHat representative said it best: It's their baby, so they get to name
it.
In the case of the Linux kernel,
: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Amen, but its not VI forever !! its Pico forever :) as for GNU/Windows
that is about the stupidest thing I ever heard, Cygwin is a great name.
next thing you know someone will want them to name it Red Hat Windows
hello cgf,
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not
entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts
straight.
So, sending this email RMS was a joke, then? Are you
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:12:56PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? This would be good publicity for
the GNU tools
Hello RMS,
I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? This would be good publicity for
the GNU tools that are installed on Windows machines. Also it would
For the record, I assumed that JG was being sarcastic, because that idea sounded so
foreign to me.
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or not:
- if it was meant to be funny, it failed.
- if it wasn't meant to be funny, it failed.
Anyways... shouldn't it be GNU\Windows?
rim shot
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