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Re: How would I get debian unstable?



On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:07:00AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty escreveu:
> >On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:54:35AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
> >  
> >>>Do you know the difference between Unix and Linux?  Short answer is that
> >>>Linux wrote Linux when he needed a Unix but Unix was caught in the Unix
> >>>wars and there wasn't one available that wasn't tied up in legal
> >>>wrangling and rewriting to remove copywritten code.
> >>>      
> >>So the kernel wrote itself?  How is that possible?  Has it become so
> >>advanced in the future that it is capable of time travel and traveled
> >>back to 1991 to self replicate?  Should we be worried about
> >>consciousness within the Linux kernel?  Or did you mean Linus wrote
> >>Linux?
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Ha!  I thought I was careful to use "s" instead of "x", but I'm not at
> >my IBM clicky keyboard.  I hate "modern" keyboards.
> >
> >Yes, Linux wrote Linux when BSD wasn't available.  I've read a quote
> >somewhere that if BSD had been available he wouldn't have bothered with
> >Linux.
> >  
> 
> I have to point that out that you just did it again. :-)
> 

Argh! %s/Linux/Linus (almost did it again again).  Why couldn't he call
it LSD (Linus Software Distribution) instead of Linux?

Doug.


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