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-co
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 j
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, us
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 po
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. I'