Heh...many people don't know much about the history.

There's so much political pain surrounding it that everyone's scared to talk about it. However, the 25-cent tour looks something like Linus had a kernel and no OS and the FSF crew had all the important parts of an OS but no kernel. Since they were all licensed openly, people started throwing them together to create an OS.

Of course there's more to it...but nothing really interesting.

J

Mitchell Brown wrote:
:P Man, it'd be great if I had any idea what you were talking about... truly.
All I can say is: it looks like I'm glad I didn't write it :D

On 11/13/06, *Jon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    Looks nice. However, I can only imagine the fits RMS would go into
    over
    this:

    "Linux is a free computer Operating System
    developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 while he
    was a student at Helsinki University in Finland."

    I know because I, personally, once emailed RMS and asked him if he
    would
    talk to a bunch of "Linux" users. After soundly beating me about the
    head and shoulders with the GNU bat, he agreed. Good history lesson
    learned that day. I think it should be rewritten not for any political
    reason, but because it's just plain wrong.

    I just know this is going to start a flame war...

    J


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