From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:28:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzp3a8am.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DpBIo-00026G-Ig@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:42:58 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The changes are ok (presuming they work), but there is a problem in
> the comments:
>
> ! ;; There is at present support for Linux and Darwin.
>
> Darwin is a complete operating system.
Since when? AFAIK, the complete system is called MacOS.
> To include "Linux" in that list implies that it too is a complete
> operating system.
But the communication is just with the kernel, via the proc file
system.
> That's unfair to the GNU Project, so we won't say do that.
I can't see that naming the kernel when clearly the kernel is meant is
problematic.
The kernel of MacOS is Darwin. The kernel of GNU/Linux is Linux.
> The current comment says "Linux" because it refers specifically to
> the kernel and its version numbers. (There are no generally
> meaningful version numbers for the GNU/Linux system as a whole.)
Well, I don't get it. What do you want to call the MacOS kernel if
not Darwin?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-03 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-02 12:21 Darwin support for lisp/battery.el Lute Kamstra
2005-07-02 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-02 14:33 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-02 15:16 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-03 20:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-03 21:28 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-03 22:34 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-03 22:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-04 2:41 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-07-04 7:39 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-04 8:28 ` Arne Jørgensen
2005-07-04 9:44 ` Lute Kamstra
[not found] ` <87pstysxke.fsf@seamus.arnested.dk>
2005-07-04 10:43 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-04 9:31 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-07-04 9:40 ` Ken Raeburn
2005-07-06 11:42 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-06 13:05 ` Sean O'Rourke
2005-07-09 10:13 ` Lute Kamstra
2005-07-04 14:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 15:30 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-05 16:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-05 20:27 ` Aidan Kehoe
2005-07-03 22:32 ` Lute Kamstra
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