Quoting Pablo Manalastas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There's a lot of BSD code in Linux; Linux is almost always bundled > with sendmail, apache, xfree86, perl, mozilla, kde, gnome, etc. But > these entities don't insist that we call Linux by the name > "GNU-BSD-Apache-Xfree-Perl-KDE-Etc-Linux".
I note Rafael's reply, but there's another point that comes to mind. You may recall the list I posted earlier: glibc, gcc/g++, cpp, bison, flex, autoconf, make, automake, emacs, rcs/cvs, and the binutils. Pretty much all of those are key pieces of development infrastructure, required for even designing, let alone building, all of the other pieces required for a *ix operating system. The point is that that was the heavy lifting, and was also the pioneering work required before anything else could be done. The point is that not all lines of code are of equal importance to the founding of an operating system. Not by a country mile. If you don't believe me, just try making sendmail, apache, XFree86, perl, mozilla, KDE, and GNOME work without system C libraries, compilers, a programmer's editor, revision control, object code handlers, source code configuration tools, and make toolkits. ;-> (To the extent alternative tools exist in some of those categories on Linux, many such exist largely courtesy of the GNU tools' existence, too.) -- Cheers, "Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?" Rick Moen -- Steven Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
