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

[David Kelly]

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.

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