--- "D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you should go on to Babbage and Lovelace Ada ... I will try to explain why we do not have to thank ARPA, Von Neuman etc. and call the system as "ARPA-Hitler-GNU-Neuman-Ada-Blah-Blah-Linux".
The people at GNU Project were working to put together the whole system that would be completely Free(as in Free India). The people at ARPA had no such goal. And you can bet Hitler never never ever dreamed about it. Some GNU components needed substantial change to work with Linux. Integrating a complete system as a distribution that would work ``out of the box'' was a big job, too. The GNU Project supports GNU/Linux systems as well as the GNU system--even with funds. They have funded the rewriting of the Linux-related extensions to the GNU C library, so that now they are well integrated, and the newest GNU/Linux systems use the current library release with no changes. Linux is the kernel, one of the essential major components of the system. The system as a whole is more or less the GNU system, with Linux added. When you're talking about this combination, please call it ``GNU/Linux''. Before replying to this read <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html> Regards Raj Shekhar ===== Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html to know more ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
