Hear, hear. Thank you Carl.
You can't fight the adoption of a name (dare I say brand) by the
public at large. Once it's embedded in the collective conscious, it's
there to stay. Witness Aspirin. Did you know that the name Alison was
once a boy's name (son-of-Al)?
To most of the world it's just
Douglas Royds wrote:
BTW, which 3rd meaning of free did you mean? Free to move? Free of
rants? Uninhibited? Available for the next punter?
It was an allusion to the Buy 1 and get another one FREE! type of
statement.
This meaning of free is not free-as-in-freedom, and not really
free-as-in-cost
uname has been around a long time (GNU and others), but the -o option is
relatively recent.
Back in Nov 1994, the sh-utils tarball included uname (download it:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sh-utils/). This was well after Linux
started, in fact, the kernel was heading towards 1.2 at that stage.
Actually, there is a lot more to this..
Mainly it's about the M$/SCO thing, our collective response.
Call it OT, or call it future-proofing - the commercial/private sector
is affected by the outcome.
Or are our discussions limited to the interests of 5% of world PC users
only?
Very helpful
edit, to have read:
InfoHelp wrote:
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Now, we have Linux the OS, and Linux the kernel. If there is a need
to differentiate, we can say Linux distribution, and Linux kernel.
And in the former case - that of commercial distribution - Linux -
GNU/Linux (.. Don't make the libs, use
