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[Tony Austin]

> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:31, Tony Austin wrote:
>> Yes, but wasn't it Emacs that Richard Stallman wasted all his efforts on
>> whne he should have been writing a kernel?  Then we could have had
>> Stallix
>> instead on Linux!
>
> :)

Whoops!  I wasn't being that serious really.  <g>

I fully understand and respect the work that RS and the GNU team put into
GNU/Linux and I feel quite sorry for poor old RS in his losing battle to
remind people that it's "GNU/Linux" and not just "Linux".  But Hell,
"GNU/Linux" is just such a mouthful!

It was one of RS's articles, where he explains how software is far too
important to be left in the hands of commercial enterprises and that our
civil liberties could be under threat, that was the turning point for me
and made me determined to learn about Linux, even if it wasn't easy.

>
> Well..Hmmm... I think, if you look at the output of the GNU project
> between 1984 and the present day, the late delivery of the kernel is
> forgivable.   I've heard a lot of people argue against it, but when RMS
> talks about it being GNU/Linux he has a point.  Fundamentally nobody
> would be using a Linux system right now without the work of the GNU
> project.
>
> The kernel is late because they made a decision to follow a more complex
> route (which was harder to debug) than Linus did.  In the LINUX
> community we often assume blindly that Linus's design was best and mock
> Tannebaum for criticising it.  Linus's design was the quickest and
> easiest to implement, but had it no have occurred the HURD may have had
> a lot more support and would have been finished years ago.
>
> When I look at my PC right now I see the following components provided
> by the GNU project:
>
> GRUB
> glib
> GlibC
> GCC
> gdb
> bash
> grep
> tar
> GIMP
> Emacs
> ncurses
> GNOME
> gtk
> pth
> gtk+
> gtk2
> gtkeditor
> Guile
> gzip
> indent
> less
> lilypond
> nana
> nano
> nautilus
> Gnome-Find
> patch
> queue
> Gnotepad+
> libsigsegv
> nethack
> Classpath
> ClasspathX
> ghostscript
> barcode
> cvs
> sed
> m4
> mdk
> parted
> GNU scientific libraries
> GNU SQL
> sysutils
> awk
> make
> autoconf
> bc
> gdbm
> gettext
> binutils
> bison
> ddd
> a2ps
> cpio
> global
> glpk
> libtool
> aspell
> autogen
> automake
> ghostview
> git
> 3dkit
> abdabi
> acct
> ACM
> groff
> ACS
> adns
> anubis
> arch
> GNU PG (GPG)
> GNUcash
> AUCTeX
> bool
> calc
> ccaudio
> cgicc
> checker
> cim
> clisp
> commonc++
> cons
> coreutils
> cpp2html
> cssc
> GNUscape Navigator
> dejaGNU
> dia
> diffutils
> dld
> ed
> elib
> enscript
> fileutils
> findutils
> Gnumeric
> finger
> fontutils
> g++
> g95
> GNUmp
> gcal
> gcl
> GNUStep
> gpaint
> GPhoto
> RCS
> readline
> rx
> screen
> sharutils
> shellutils
> smail
> spell
> termutils
> textutils
> time
> units
> uucp
> wdiff
> wget
> xaos
> xinfo
>
> ... if that's a waster of time then I struggle to see how it could have
> been spent more productively.
>
> --
> Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> Free Software Foundation
>
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