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Re: Emacs vista build failures
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Richard M Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:24:17 -0400 |
You might want to throttle your auto-responder that triggers whenever
someone refers to `Linux' without the GNU/ prefix.
That is an insulting thing to say. I thought about how to respond
to your message, as I always do.
I really MEANT the kernel.
In that case, you could have made your meaning unambiguous by saying
"kernel". Since we were talking about Windows, which is a complete
operating system (not a kernel), it was entirely reasonable for me to
think you too meant a complete system.
Quoting wikipedia:
An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software
component of a computer system that is responsible for the management
and coordination of activities and the sharing of the resources of the
computer. The operating system acts as a host for application programs
that are run on the machine.
That is one of the two customary meanings of operating system.
The other customary meaning refers to the whole system.
Wikipedia ought to mention both, but I cannot fight them
over this.
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Johannes Weiner, 2008/07/22
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Johannes Weiner, 2008/07/23
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Johannes Weiner, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/23