On Friday 18 April 2003 09:33, zeeble@softhome.net wrote:
Why? Strangle the web with even more crap traffic? And thanks for the info....I did'nt know that software companies were so involved in rolling their "own OSes"...name me 5-10 for more enlightenment.
From http://www.freeos.com website 1) Linux 2) FreeBSD 3) FreeDOS 4) OpenBSD 5) NetBSD 6) eCos 7) Minix 8) Oberon 9) ReactOS
And pleeease dont forget SCO unix and Novell.
And what might the difference between GNU/Linux and "most Linuxes" be?
GNU denotes the principles, knowledgebase and the software emanating from the application of GNU philosphy. Linux is the kernel.
This nomenclatural fight that seems to crop on giving proper "recognition" to GNU+Linux rather than just Linux seems to get a lot carried away at times. The whole purpose of the GNU project was to allow free source sharing, as well as a whole set of values.
That is precisely the point. One needs to draw eyeballs to these values. Focusing on the name is one very good method of doing so. IMHO the battle is more political than technical. E.g. the doc file format. No supernatural technical magic in there, just the establishment maintaining the status quo and the coders having to waste time reverse engineering rather than creating.
not just crap hum-dum about what a particular group thinks should be the way that Open Source must be run. But as this GNU/Linux and Linux divide seems to grow, more and more people who write actual good code are in the news, and it is the zealots who seem to have more time to fight about "ideals" rather than write the code that has an even greater impact on Open Source and GNU....
The real world is not paradise. There are stingRAYs and sadams and bushes and blares with gates and windows thrown in for spice. While the technically competent focus on coding the bad guys are busy shutting them out from viltal elements of infrastucture. One needs the zealots to drum up sufficient attention to this shutting off. Opensource requires the resources of the closed source companies. Hence the compromise on saying things the sponsors dont like and the "growing divide". It's the age old my bread v/s your freedom.
Though what I said might sound harsh to some, it is said with due respect for people who have found the balance between promoting Open Source via Writing good software and promoting. My only problem is people who make these pompous statements which hardly sync with reality.
Not quite. Opensource convineintly ignores issues of vital importance to the public in order to garner crumbs thrown in by their sponsors, who will any way drop them like hot bricks at the first opportunity. It is also IMHO a lack of confidence in the power of the FSF philosophy. Eventually the microsofts, SCOs and Novells will have to ditch their crap in order to improve GNU/Linux. Any step to compromise is one step too many.