i've seen the documentaries, i'm sure stallman n chums would have figured out that a monolithic kernel was more practical if only in terms of ease of debugging and thus speed of developement. without GNU, what would linux have? without linux what would gnu have? i say linux has more to thank for gnu than gnu has to thank for linux.... infact... the only reason we talk about linux in this overarching all encmpassing generalisation meaning pretty much anything from the kernel itself or all open source software and methodology rather than GNU in the same way is a more a matter of marketability and catchyness than the actuality of the situation and merit. ... or thats my interpretation of it anyways.<br>
<br>the gnu opperating system originally ran on unix's kernel right? gnu didnt <i>need</i> linux in the driest most uninspired practical sense, but those guys had the vision, the ideals, the philosophy... we've all heard the sharing recipes analogy right? and so, because linus recognised the practical benefits of the GPL and all the GNU-esq philosophy inspired liscencing freedom, it went that way, and once that happened, GNU had it's kernel. <br>
<br>i know that's probably labouring the point a little heavily, considering it might only be shoved aside as a footnote in history, but my interpretation of all i've seen on the matter.... it wasnt the other way around. ;)<br>
<br>but then... it's all rather hypothetical and mute until we go quantum leaping around the 6th dimension to check what would have happened had each of the other were not there.<br><br>in this timeline, in this spacetime continuum... they were both there, and we are all very thankful for it. :)<br>
<br>can you imagine if neither had come about? we'd all be stuck with mac v win again. aaaaaargh!<br><br>bless you richard stallman and all other early community contributors for your vision. bless you linus torvalds for you well tempered logic and wisdom.<br>
<br>... bless you andrew clayton for setting me up for a rant. lol.<br><br><br>thinking about it again, considering what i've just written, to put it concisely....<br><br>it's both ways around, isnt it?<br><br>:)<br>
<br>;D<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/20 Andrew Clayton <<a href="mailto:andrew@digital-domain.net">andrew@digital-domain.net</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:19:03 +0100, Digit (SG) wrote:<br>
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> surely you mean IceCat.... right? ;) ;)<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat</a><br>
> yep. one of the many i missed out from my honorable mentions. not<br>
> that i've used it since it's name change.<br>
><br>
> GNU is the way. hehe. without GNU, no-one would have ever heard of<br>
> linux. all respect for GNU-ey projects.<br>
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</div>Or is it the other way around...? ;)<br>
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