[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Apr 20 16:47:38 CDT 2003


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

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Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
St. Petersburg, FL                          -Gary Nichols


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