On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> On Thursday 23 May 2002 19:21, John Allen wrote:
> > Read that shit, remain as unconvinced as ever. RMS = Really Mad Stallman
> >
> > Linux is Linux because thats what the kernel is called, just like BSD.
>> BSD = Berkeley Standard Distribution, ie the name of the distribution. I don't
> know if the kernel has any special name...
If you're going to correct the man, at least be accurate. BSD stands for
Berkeley Software Distribution. The Berkeley comes from University of
California at Berkeley which is where BSD was originally developed as a
packaging of Bell Labs' Unix with modifications made at UCB and with a few
other bits and pieces, including a crappy editor written by some guy name Joy.
Niall
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