On Jul 20, 2008, Anders Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And holding HURD up as an example don't really hold water, > considering it's past and present state. Honestly, this argument is a bit misguided. It is true that HURD's choice of kernel model slowed things down, but the main factor for its slow development since 1992 was that a Free kernel that worked with the GNU operating system was available. Creating one as part of the GNU operating system didn't make as much sense any more, just like creating an MTA didn't make much sense because of sendmail, and creating a text processing system didn't make much sense because of TeX. > I'll let you happily argue the toss until the cows come home, but GNU > is in itself not an operating system. So how do you refer to a full operating system minus a kernel? Say, GNU-Hurd, or "[GNU/]Linux"-Linux? -- 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
