On Sunday 25 November 2001 18:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He doesn't even mention the abbreviation GNU in the article, though > he got the stuff about Richard Stalman and his manifesto right.
Oof, I hate this GNU-before-linux-thing! Mr. RMS has met once Elizabeth from Linux Weekly News web site and for almost 2 hours was nagging her to change the name from LWN to GNU/LWN or something like that "because Linux is based on GNU tools" *BSD freaks, RMS lovers and others - I don't care if everyone flame me on this, but here goes. True - GNU stuff was available before Linux, just like the *BSD stuff was before Linux available - but once Linux became wildly acceptible and popular - there has been MUCH more GNU stuff. If there wasn't linux, was there any new GCC? GNOME? GRUB? I doubt. Lets face it - Linux popularity introduced to many people the GNU applications and stuff. When I started with Linux (circa 1995 or so) the only thing I heard about GNU tools - was GNU HURD (0.09 if I'm not mistaken) and it's not because I was an MS freak - I programmed all the 8 bit processors and played with Mac/Amiga/Atari machines and never heard GNU tools from them... > * I was wondering what "Hebrew support for Linux" from IBM means. > Again, this expression makes as much sense as saying that > the Intel Processors support Hebrew. It is just another result of > the brain wash M$ has been doing trying to extinguish the border > between OS and user programs. This really reminds me - does anyone here uses OSF/1 OS, Alpha and Mozilla? is the hebrew the same as the Linux version of mozilla? > * About Torvalds comments - being from Scandinavia, I am not surprised > at all about them. They all fit the "Why cannot everyone in the > world get along just like we do?" attitude. Imo, Torvalds should just > just stick to technical issues that he is good at, just like we should do. He's from Finland ;) > > Regards, > Dov > -- Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
