From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jellybean stonerfish Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:56 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com Message-ID: References: <477FBD32.30FCBB2E@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199666440 4468 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 00:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 01:41:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBg32-0002YB-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBg2f-0005Xa-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!bd748f00!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: pan 0.120 (Plate of Shrimp) Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.3.231.50 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.net 1199664056 ST000 75.3.231.50 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:00:56 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:00:56 EST X-UserInfo1: OP][SY_DPRR_RRD[FBCD^VX@WB]^PCPDLXUNNHXIJYWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.os.linux.misc:756237 gnu.misc.discuss:94820 gnu.emacs.help:155118 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50539 Archived-At: On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:24:02 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: Well not really, but he pasted something. > > Creating a distribution from scratch is probably to much work. So we have > to go the second way: Build upon an existing distribution. Is it really that hard to build a distribution. I, as untrained as I am, have an old laptop 97, that I built lfs on in 200?, so I could have a working laptop. At the time I could not find a distro cd that would boot. It's system is sleek, just X with a couple or apps (firefox, gqview, ect ). Automating the build process with scripts would not be that tough. Stallman won't even own an encrypted dvd and I bet doesn't go to sites needing flash. I am surprised he, or other folks at the gnu foundation don't roll their own os. I use ubuntu for my desktop, because it is easy. I also like the fact that my nvidia card's 3d works, and I do watch flash and listen to m4a files once in a while. stonerfish