Re: alternative motd and logo?
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:51, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > <Sigh> How much do we of XFree? Mozilla.org and AOL? OpenOffice.org
> > and Sun? AbiWord? Ximian? TrollTech? KDE.org?
>
> Uhh... did you mean "owe" instead of "of" in the first sentence? Sorry,
> I'm just finding it hard to parse that...
yes, s/owe/of
> > It goes without saying that we all use tons of GNU s/w and s/w developed
> > on GNU tools. However, if most Windows based tools and applications
> > were written in Borland C, instead of VC, should "the other OS" be
> > called Borland/Windows? No...
>
> You miss the point. Without the GNU toolset, a Linux kernel is just a
> kernel with no userland components -- useless. You could, in theory,
> replace the GNU toolset with something else, but pretty much every Linux
> distro uses the GNU programs, so that's purely a theoretical
[snip]
> kernel itself is compiled with GNU's compiler is merely icing on the
> cake; it makes the argument a little stronger, but would not be much of
> an argument all by itself.
Just out of curiosity: what other system(s) use the GNU toolset?
Hurd and ????
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