On Jul 15, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> What was the working system before Linux? >> It was GNU. GNU, as a system, pre-dates Linux. > As a system of what? An operating system, whose kernel was still under development. And, like every other component of the GNU Operating System, still is. >> GNU was not built on top of Linux. Linux was eventually able to run GNU. > GNU what? GNU Operating System. That stuff you could get from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu long before there were such things as ftp:// URIs. > I was more interested in running apache and sendmail at the time and > didn't care if it was bsd, linux, or unix underneath. Apache?!? You're not going far back enough. Apache is younger that Linux, IIRC. Certainly much younger than GNU. sendmail, yeah, I'm pretty sure the GNU Project decided to not implement its own MTA back in mid 1980's because sendmail was Free Software, and so the other pieces were designed to just use it. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
