[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

Linc Fessenden linc at thelinuxlink.net
Sun Apr 20 16:55:54 CDT 2003


On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> >>> In for a penny, in for a pound.. Once you are using the Gnu C 
> >>> compiler
> >>> -
> >>> you are doing the Gnu dance with the rest of us :-)
> >>
> >>    Yeah but the name "Linux" refers, technically, to only the kernel.
> >> The rest of the OS...even the friggin' C libraries...are GNU.  The 
> >> BSDs
> >> are a whole operating system, that happen to use the GNU C compiler.
> >> That's far from penny/pound logic, sweetcakes. ;)
> >>
> >>         -Dave
> >
> > Maybe so, but if you are uding the Gnu compiler to compile your
> > programs...
> 
>    ...that doesn't make those programs GNU.
> 
>       -Dave

No, but it makes them nothing without it.

-- 
-Linc Fessenden

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...


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