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From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/gnu linux-and-gnu.html |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:14:44 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 08/03/03 10:14:44
Modified files:
gnu : linux-and-gnu.html
Log message:
Add footnote `newersystems'.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.57&r2=1.58
Patches:
Index: linux-and-gnu.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html,v
retrieving revision 1.57
retrieving revision 1.58
diff -u -b -r1.57 -r1.58
--- linux-and-gnu.html 10 Feb 2008 13:53:23 -0000 1.57
+++ linux-and-gnu.html 3 Mar 2008 10:14:23 -0000 1.58
@@ -188,11 +188,11 @@
<p>
Addendum: Aside from GNU, one other project has independently produced
-a free Unix-like operating system. This system is known as BSD, and it
-was developed at UC Berkeley. It was non-free in the 80s, but became
-free in the early 90s. A free operating system that exists today is
-almost certainly either a variant of the GNU system, or a kind of BSD
-system.</p>
+a free Unix-like operating system. This system is known as BSD, and
+it was developed at UC Berkeley. It was non-free in the 80s, but
+became free in the early 90s. A free operating system that exists
+today<a href="#newersystems">(4)</a> is almost certainly either a
+variant of the GNU system, or a kind of BSD system.</p>
<p>
People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately. The
BSD developers did not write a kernel and add it to the GNU system,
and a name like GNU/BSD would not fit the situation.<a
-href="#gnubsd">(4)</a></p>
+href="#gnubsd">(5)</a></p>
<h3>Notes:</h3>
<ol>
@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@
<a href="/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C library</a>.</li>
<li>
+<a id="newersystems"></a>Since that was written, a nearly-all-free
+Windows-like system has been developed, but technically it is not at
+all like GNU or Unix, so it doesn't really affect this issue. Most of
+the kernel of Solaris has been made free, but if you wanted to make a
+free system out of that, aside from replacing the missing parts of the
+kernel, you would also need to put it into GNU or BSD.</li>
+
+<li>
<a id="gnubsd"></a>On the other hand, in the years since this article
was written, the GNU C Library has been ported to the FreeBSD kernel,
which made it possible to combine the GNU system with that kernel. Just
@@ -276,7 +284,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/02/10 13:53:23 $
+$Date: 2008/03/03 10:14:23 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/gnu linux-and-gnu.html,
Richard M. Stallman <=