Re: [DEB-USER] Re: alternative motd and logo?
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 17:48, Peter Hicks wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:45:14PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:32:04AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> >
> >> * System Wizards (cube@linfe.it) [020801 10:35]:
[snip]
> >Linus named it Linux. A name is just a name. A name doesn't have to
> >describe what something does, where it came from, or anything else. GNU
> >gets puhlenty of credit when the license of 1/3 to 2/3 of the software
> >on a typical Linux distro is the GPL.
> >
>
> Linus named the KERNEL linux, but the operating system is more than
> just a kernel...
The sysadmin of the 1st ftp server that Linus put the source on
named it Linux.
libc5 vs. libc6 (aka glibc 2). Why is libc6 also know as glibc?
"apt-cache show" seems to indicate that libc5 was *not* GNU.
True?
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