Re: [Pan-users] Re: clearing headers?

[CSV4ME2]

No, no, Stallman's kernel was named Herd, as in GNU/Herd, that never took off 
and luckily for us Linus appeared, undaunted by any and all professors with 
established names, such as Andy Tanenbaum (minix:remember that famous mail?)

As a man with a mission and a vision Stalllman must be pissed off that all his 
work is now popularly remembered as the Linux OS.

Give Stallman at least some credits

C



On Wednesday 08 October 2008, David Kelly wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:09 PM, CSV4ME2 wrote:
> > First Richard S. cs. created GNU in the eighties,
> > than there was Linus T creating Linux in the nineties
> > and later on glueing GNU unto the Linux kernel giving us a nice UNIX
> > clone.
>
> No, Stallman failed to create GNU. GNU was to be Stallman's OS. GCC is
> only the C compiler created for GNU. GNU recursively stands for Gnu is
> Not Unix.
>
> Stallman's vision did not appear until an upstart in Finland made a
> workable kernel. It just so happened that he used the compiler
> Stallman championed. Then others started packaging "distributions"
> which included gcc and other components intended for GNU. BSD
> components were also used. The mix depended all upon whoever was
> packaging the distribution. This is why Linux is only the kernel, not
> the OS.
>
> When GNU failed to produce a complete OS, Stallman lays claim to Linux
> by trying to label it GNU/Linux.
>
> I quit trying to use Linux back in the Slackware days. Was too
> unstable. One still had to collect patchkits from various places to
> make it run properly, and then patches often conflicted and nothing
> ran properly. After crashes trashed my filesystem the 3rd time in one
> week requiring the 3rd complete re-install I tried FreeBSD 2.0.0-
> RELEASE. It too wasn't perfect, but it ran reliably doing the tasks
> Linux would not run reliably. Last week one of my FreeBSD boxes
> reached 730 days of uptime, and is still running as an in-house email,
> web server, and SVN repository.
>
> Composed and sent via MacOS X.
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
>
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