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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: [YLUG] Photo of the Manchester Stallman talk
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Andrew John Hughes |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: [YLUG] Photo of the Manchester Stallman talk |
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Tue, 13 May 2008 09:33:22 +0100 |
2008/5/13 mike cloaked <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Andrew John Hughes
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > He covered the history of the development of Linux by Linus Torvalds in
> some
> > depth, and how this provided the final missing piece to the GNU system he
> > had begun about seven years prior. He also reminded the audience that
> there
> > is no system but GNU and Linux is one of its kernels... ;)
>
> Thanks - just one question on this - I was not aware of any other
> kernels than Linux for GNU? What alternatives are there? Maybe I have
> a limited knowledge about FOSS OSes!
>
> --
> mike
>
Some possibles:
GNU Hurd - http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html - the original GNU attempt
Nexenta - http://www.nexenta.org/os - GNU + Solaris
Debian GNU/NetBSD - http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ - GNU + NetBSD
Debian GNU/kfreeBSD - http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ GNU + FreeBSD
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: [YLUG] Photo of the Manchester Stallman talk, Paul Waring, 2008/05/12