Re: GNU-Linux vs Linux naming [was RE: LAM/MPI Parallel processing]

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Fredric Fredricson wrote:

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> > What rms is pissed about is that 20 years of GNU service (formally,
> > the GNU Project is only about 15 years old, but the core efforts go
> > back earlier) to the community only gets mentioned by the majority of
> > Linux users because rms has made himself a royal PITA about the whole
> > thing.  The Linux kernel is _useless_[1] without the GNU tools, while
> > the GNU tools now make it possible to turn Windows 95 into an
> > approximation of a real OS
> You gotta mean GNU/Windows 95 ;-)
> 
> /F

linux kernel isn't useless without the GNU tools.  You could just as
easily compile the BSD tools on it.  Using a cross-compiler, of course, on
a Sun machine running Sun's C compiler, to avoid using gcc :)

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
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