What? HERD...?
Wasn't the herd kernel a response of Richard Stallman to his disappointment at
not getting the appropriate recognition for all the gnu utilities that have
been pivotal in Linux becoming what it is today? Or so I read somewhere in
Linux Format or Linux Journal.
Oh and why the
I thought the Herd project was older than Linux. It just never really took
off. Linux is what Hurd was supposed to be, more or less. Right? I think RS
is po'd that Linux beat Herd to the punch.
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:52:21 -1000
James McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What? HERD...?
Wasn't
begin mpdickens's quote:
| What? HERD...?... Excuse me, but the last time I looked at HERD,
| I realized the reason they named it HERD was because SH!T was
| already taken. Talk about bad open source politics: this is the
| poster child.
look at it this way. most people have never hurd of
begin James McDonald's quote:
| Wasn't the herd kernel a response of Richard Stallman to his
| disappointment at not getting the appropriate recognition for all
| the gnu utilities that have been pivotal in Linux becoming what it
| is today?
no. hurd has been swirling in the caldron (some say
no. hurd has been swirling in the caldron (some say it's not a
caldron) for some time; it, or plans for it, predates linux.
development has been, uh, slow.
see how much you can learn by posting mildly erroneous stuff to this list it
doesn't stay erroneous for long.
Ohh and erroneous is my
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, James McDonald wrote:
What? HERD...?
Wasn't the herd kernel a response of Richard Stallman to his disappointment at
not getting the appropriate recognition for all the gnu utilities that have
been pivotal in Linux becoming what it is today? Or so I read somewhere in
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:01:49PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I thought the Herd project was older than Linux. It just never really took
off. Linux is what Hurd was supposed to be, more or less. Right? I think RS
is po'd that Linux beat Herd to the punch.
Hurd had some, um, development
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 11:52 pm,James McDonald wrote:
What? HERD...?
Wasn't the herd kernel a response of Richard Stallman to his
disappointment at not getting the appropriate recognition for all the
gnu utilities that have been pivotal in Linux becoming what it is
today? Or so I
CRIMEY! That's 'roo ta ya mate!
SNIP
Oh and why the heck are Linux magazines s expensive? I pay
$18-$20AUD each for them. What does eveyone else have to shell out or
do y'all not buy them?
The extra cost is to cover the additional insurance required when
shipping to Oz because of the
Ben Duncan wrote:
CRIMEY! That's 'roo ta ya mate!
SNIP
Oh and why the heck are Linux magazines s expensive? I pay
$18-$20AUD each for them. What does eveyone else have to shell out or
do y'all not buy them?
The extra cost is to cover the additional insurance required when
I have a RANT:
I gotta tell ya: Here I am, at http://www.ibiblio.org
webpage that contains just about all of the linux distro's
that are available... I'm reading the various descriptions
of the distros. I come to the Debian description and
it states:
Debian is kernel independent. It currently
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