[xubuntu-users] you have got to be kidding me

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 11/06/12 20:48, TOM TOM wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wayward4now at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 06/10/2012 05:58 AM, Benoit wrote:
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>         Don't forget that Linux is only the kernel. A distribution is
>         GNU/Linux.
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>     Sez who? A bunch of "mustabators" telling me, and everyone else,
>     what we MUST call it? I'll call it what I like as I darned well
>     please. Ric
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>     -- 
>     My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
>     "There are two Great Sins in the world...
>     ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
>     Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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> being a mustardator myself, I must tell you that GNU is pure 
> awesomeness and without it  our world would be much uglier
> and linux would be Linus's minix and no one would have bothered with 
> it. Tom
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>
Yeah, it would actually be almost impossible to run the Linux kernel on 
its own without any GNU utilities (many of which are included in the 
initial ramdisk) - try it and you'll get 'kernel panic - not 
syncing...'.  GNU is also needed for licensing - without it we wouldn't 
have GPL, needed to protect the kernel/os to keep it open source.
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