No, no, Stallman's kernel was named Herd, as in GNU/Herd, that never took off and luckily for us Linus appeared, undaunted by any and all professors with established names, such as Andy Tanenbaum (minix:remember that famous mail?)
As a man with a mission and a vision Stalllman must be pissed off that all his work is now popularly remembered as the Linux OS. Give Stallman at least some credits C On Wednesday 08 October 2008, David Kelly wrote: > 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. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
