Great work, I am persuing the date at this moment myself, when i get some numbers on it, i will be able to tell you about the place too. The short is, It does not happen any faster, no matter how hard we want it to :-) Loading ... Cheers Szemir
On November 13, 2006 22:32, Gustin Johnson wrote: > The short short version. Linux is just the kernel. the GNU part is the > rest of the OS. So GNU/Linux is the technical term. > > Jon wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> Mitchell Brown wrote: > >> > I have made the modifications > >> > > >> > http://untitled1.ca/clug/brochure.pdf > >> > > >> > -- > >> > pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> > >> > Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 > >> > >> 5CCF > >> > >> > 9091 C422 > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > clug-talk mailing list > >> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> > **Please remove these lines when replying > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> http://www.jonwatson.ca > >> +1.403.875.6048 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php > >> <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php>) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > >> Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF > >> 9091 C422 > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
