Jamie Wilkinson writes:
> However, this is the word 'linux'. What else do you think it could
> possibly refer to?
Most people seem to think that 'Linux' is the name for the whole kit and
kaboodle: kernel, userland, and everything. They are wrong, but they still
will be confused by a package name
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* Jamie Wilkinson [Tue, Nov 11 2003, 11:28:43PM]:
> >Note that the name is choosen not only to attract the user, but also to
> >catch that who blindly use "apt-get source linux". The user wouldn't get
> >the well-known and good kernel-source packages but something which is
> >under contr
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote:
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>* Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]:
>
>> >The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within
>> >other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not to
>> >answer to it but refered to an URL
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:11:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> >
> > 'linux' is a perfect name for the package. The tarballs contain that very
> > name.
>
> Note that the name is choosen not only to attract the user, but also to
> catch that who blindly use "apt-get source linux". The user woul
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:11:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> initrd-on-cramfs fix ,
You mean the kludge that craps in fs/block_dev.c? If so, feel free to
can it - the proper fix is to switch cramfs_read() to use of pagecache
and it's going upstream.
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* Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]:
> >The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within
> >other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not to
> >answer to it but refered to an URL which did not contain the answers.
>
> 'linux' is a p
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