Re: Anniversary

Oh god, not this again.

This is the anniversary of Linux - the announcement of the kernel  
project, and has nothing to do with GNU. GNU was announced on  
September 27th, 1983. So this is unrelated.

Furthermore, note how Linus says he has ported bash and gcc from  
Minix, which in turn were ported from GNU. So shouldn't this be GNU/ 
MINIX/Linux?

So, with that reasoning, shouldn't I be using GNU/MINIX/Linux/SuSE/ 
OpenSuse/11?

I hardly think the over complication of names is going to help promote  
Linux in any way. Just see the recent article released by the  
government which talks about the GRIMP.

Keith

On 25 Aug 2008, at 10:06, Jean Azzopardi wrote:

> One mistake : GNU/Linux.
> Ramon Casha wrote:
>> On the 25th August 1991 the following message appeared on the
>> newsgroup /comp.os.minix/:
>>
>> /Hello everybody out there using minix- /
>>
>> /I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big
>> and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has
>> been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like
>> any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS
>> resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem
>> due to practical reasons)among other things. /
>>
>> /I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem  
>> to work.
>> This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months,
>> and I'd
>> like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are  
>> welcome,
>> but I won't promise I'll implement them  /
>>
>> /Linus Torvalds torvalds@...
>> <mailto:torvalds@...> /
>>
>>
>> *Happy Birthday Linux!!!*
>>
>>
>> Ramon Casha
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