What do you mean by "used"? I still have a (paid) usenet subscription!
Don On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit of history from an old-timer... This was back in the early 1990's - > pre world wide web, when we old timers used a primitive technology called > "usenet" to communicate. > > Linus to Richard Stallman: I've written a new operating system. I'd like > to call it Gnu/Linux. > > Richard Stallman to Linus: No! The operating system for GNU is "the > herd." > > Linus to Richard Stallman: OK, I'll just call it Linux. > > [years later, Linux is popular, the herd won't even boot on PC's yet.] > > Richard Stallman to the World: Linux should really be called GNU/Linux. > > Linux to the World: Too late, you had your chance. > > > -- > Bob Matthews > Associate Professor of Computer Science > Truman State University > 100 E. Normal > Kirksville, MO 63501 > > http://www2.truman.edu/~matthews > > > > > From: iosif <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:40:35 -0500 > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: [fsck] Re: [Offtopic] GNU/Linux is kind of itchy > > > > "Credit for Linux generally goes to its human namesake, one Linus > > Torvalds, a Finn who got the whole thing rolling in 1991 when he used > > some of the GNU tools to write the beginnings of a Unix kernel that > > could run on PC-compatible hardware. And indeed Torvalds deserves all > > the credit he has ever gotten, and a whole lot more. But he could not > > have made it happen by himself, any more than Richard Stallman could > > have. To write code at all, Torvalds had to have cheap but powerful > > development tools, and these he got from Stallman's GNU project." > > > > -- In the Beginning Was the Command Line > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 09:13, [email protected] <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:30 -0500, "iosif" <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> should be GNU/Linux :) > >>> > >>> I remember I've read something about this on Linux Hater's Blog (btw, > >>> LHB is a good one) but can't recall. > >>> > >>> So take the following with some sort of humor. Not as enjoyable as LHB > >>> but the following's the best I can find. > >>> > >>> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16843&cid=1941648 > >>> > >>> - Is GCC critical to Linux? All of the following are able to compile > the > >>> kernel. > >>> > >>> LLVM > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/011711.html > >>> TCC http://bellard.org/tcc/ > >>> ICC http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers/ > >>> > >>> Btw, I'm trying to get 2.6.36 compiled with icc (someone claimed that > it > >>> was possible without any patch > >>> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1832598&cid=33974198 ) but I > >>> personally wasn't able to. They said icc makes it run 20% faster. Not a > >>> bad deal. > >> > >> Well any distro your using will be using gcc and glibc though. > >> > >> The real reason why asking for GNU/Linux is unreasonable is because > >> the reasoning is that GNU is such an essential part of the operating > >> system that it needs credit. But it ignores the modern definition of a > >> operating system certainly includes the services provided by X (which > >> still manages device drivers for video cards, if thats not "OS" then I > >> don't know what is) and arguably also the API and services provided by > >> KDE or Gnome. So if you are going to say GNU/Linux, you should also > >> call the OS used by Ubuntu "GNU/Linux/X/Gnome". > >> > >> Or you could just call it Linux. :) > >> > >> Ian > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > >> with Subject: unsubscribe > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > > with Subject: unsubscribe > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >
