/prog/ - Rimmis history

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-21 22:58

How long has RMS been flogging the "GNU/Linux" horse? Let's take a trip back in time...

Linux isn't an operating system
Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:37:28 -0500

on NASA TV last week indicate that computers running under the Linux
operating system are being used on STS-75. Linux is powerful 32-bit
multiuser, multitasking operating system similar to Unix in many ways
except cost and licensing....

Linux was designed a few short years ago by Linus Torvalds, a graduate...

This article makes a common mistake: confusing the whole operating
system with the kernel. Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel, Linux. A
whole operating systems consists of Linux and many other programs,
which were written by a great many people.

There are a number of whole operating systems using the Linux kernel,
Most of them are more or less close variants of the GNU system, so I
recommend the term "Linux-based GNU system" for them.

I'm going to talk to the author of the article about this distinction.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9603.0/0275.html

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-21 23:13

who gives a shit get fucked

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-21 23:21

>>2
Let's try to keep it polite here.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 0:10

So it depends on his definition of operating system and thus his campaign continues.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 0:25

hax my GNU/Anus

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 0:42

Calling it a system is stupid anyway.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 1:14

Hackers are computer criminals.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 2:42

>>3
~~Faggot~~ Homo.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-22 19:05

>>5
It does not. Operating system definition is vague, but GNU fits most definitions out there, and Linux fits none.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-24 16:34

>>9
It actually does fit one. The one where kernel = OS but these people keep calling Windows as Windows (instead of NT) or Mac OS X as Mac OS X (instead of XNU or Mach).

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-24 16:51

>>10
Don't forget Android as Android (instead of Linux).

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-25 8:45

>>10
Can you boot Mach with something like busybox?

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-25 8:55

>>12
I can't see why not.

Name: Anonymous 2014-10-25 19:48

Unicode Character 'TURTLE' (U+1F422)

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