[Ilugc] Happy Birthday GNU
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Thu Sep 4 15:30:30 2008
On Thursday 04 Sep 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
From: John Sullivan <johns@xxxxxxx>
The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free
What kernel and GNU tool combo i.e. GNU Operating System does this
refer to?
It refers to the date that RMS decided that there should be an
alternative to Unix which was used, written and distributed freely.
I am trying to reconcile the announcement's title "GNU Operating System"
turning 25 i.e. celebrating it's 25th birthday. To me, this implies
that the GNU tools (the Unix equivalents required for sys admin at a
min.) and the HURD kernel (GNU OS) were available the day GNU was
announced/formed.
To the best of my knowledge the above combo is still not ready for
public consumption [uber geeks may disagree :)]. IMO, it should have
been captioned GNU's 25th anniversary.
I imagine that the precise definition of the Four Freedoms came
later. There is a "history of GNU" article somewhere on www.gnu.org
which you can look for.
I am aware of GNU/FSF history.
--
Arun Khan
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