From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Bug#139792: emacs21: Press PageDown, get infinite loop Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:15:57 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020417171558.009C3297D3@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> References: <87k7ran9bo.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <200204152200.g3FM0GD23812@aztec.santafe.edu> <20020416135630.8637F29742@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> <200204171604.g3HG4l124861@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019063906 14776 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 17:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rlb@defaultvalue.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 139792-quiet@bugs.debian.org, nick@nickwillson.com Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xt4b-0003qD-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 19:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xt4k-0005Gm-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mixing.qc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca ([216.226.40.21] helo=mixing.qc.dfo.ca) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xt2K-00058Y-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mixing.qc.dfo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixing.qc.dfo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009C3297D3; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:15:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stallman of "Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:04:47 MDT." <200204171604.g3HG4l124861@aztec.santafe.edu> X-Mailer: mh-e 6.1; nmh 1.0.4+dev; Emacs 21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:748 > The "WHAT IS LINUX?" example text that Nick > selected is from the Linux kernel source README file which discusses > configuring, compiling and installing the kernel. In that context, > Linus is obviously referring to "Linux" the kernel, and not "Linux" the > system. > > The text starts, "Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus > Torvalds". Unix is an entire operating system, including shell, > compiler, libraries, etc. The kernel alone is not a clone of Unix. > > To make the text correct with Linux referring to the kernel, > that first line of these release notes ought to be changed. Okay. It could be changed to: "Linux is a Unix kernel clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds". But someone would have to suggest it to Linus so it's changed upstream. It's hardly worth changing in the Debian package. Peter