Ronald KA4INM Youvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > >> Do you have any document describing the "philosophy of > >> Linux"? I searched for "philosophy of Linux" but only > > >> could find discussions about free vs. non-free and > > >>cathedral vs. bazaar. > > > Hmm. Have you heard, for example, that Linux is supposed to be > > functional without X? > > In fact `the X system' is not any part of LINUX, it was written > by MIT and can be compiled to run under DOS, windows, almost any > OS, it is not an OS, it is GUI layer like windows 3.1 is, (formally > called the `X system', now `X windows') It is included to make LINUX > competitive with winders. (I think it is in the public domain.)
Sure, X window cannot be part of Linux, since windows is a kernel. To check what is part of Linux, see http://www.kernel.org > > > I think "the philosophy of Linux" refers to each program, such as > all of the utilities like ls or cmp or ps or df or du each doing one > task, each been debugged thoroughly, does it's task correctly under > all reasonable circumstances, has all needed command line switches Finally, "the philosophy of Linux" describe the GNU softwares that distributions ships. Personally, I think the term GNU/Linux more appropriate... But are talking about mc ? :) -- Mathieu Roy << Profile << http://savannah.gnu.org/users/yeupou << >> Homepage >> http://yeupou.coleumes.org >> << GPG Key << http://gpg.coleumes.org << _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
