From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:50:59 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86pnx16ybg.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537912414 25285 195.159.176.226 (25 Sep 2018 21:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:53:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 23:53:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g4vGs-0006S3-2Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 23:53:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4vIy-0006dw-Lx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:55:40 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:a7b:c117:: with SMTP id w23-v6mr48197wmi.21.1537912260282; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q200-v6no1627771wmd.0!news-out.google.com!z77-v6ni6456wmz.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HaGy6LUS8/rbhnvZ9jU3E3+QRew= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223885 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118010 Archived-At: Barry Margolin wrote: > In particular, the GPL makes use of copyright > to make sure that the software remains free. > The copyright specifies that you may only > copy the program if you agree to the license, > which requires you to make source > code available. I still don't understand what OS is used by Richard Stallman? Debian perhaps, or Hurd? I heard a rumor recently there is a Hurd Debian distribution. I wonder how that works? Perhaps it refers to the Debian software archives! Because otherwise Debian GNU/Linux is monolithic, while GNU Hurd is a "microkernel". BTW I think that designation is misleading. It should be called a "distributed" or "conglomerate" OS instead. Because there is nothing "micro" about the idea - actually it creates much more complexity than a monolithic OS! Only some commercial aspects are appealing, where one can "verify" the kernel - because it is supposedly small, and in a way it is; only, in reality the complexity is transferred from INSIDE the units to BETWEEN the units, where it is much harder to make sense of anything. Well, in all modesty, I don't want to educate anyone on this, especially people who spent many of their best years not getting it to work. I mean, that would be totally unappropriate. Ööö -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573