From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "MIT/GNU/Linux" Date: 30 Dec 2006 09:19:49 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1167499189.103009.21100@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <87d562nvnx.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167500440 3515 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 17:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 18:40:39 2006 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 1H0iC9-0005Oc-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iC8-0002VT-I7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.0.110.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167499195 13999 127.0.0.1 (30 Dec 2006 17:19:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:19:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.0.110.20; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144433 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40037 Archived-At: Micha Feigin wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+michf=post.tau.ac.il@gnu.org > > [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+michf=post.tau.ac.il@gnu.org] > > On Behalf Of Jay Belanger > > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 1:13 AM > > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Cc: belanger@truman.edu > > Subject: Re: "MIT/GNU/Linux" > > > > > > "Micha Feigin" writes: > > ... > > > What if you replace GNU tools? (there are alternative > > options to most > > > if not > > > all) > > > > Then it wouldn't be GNU/Linux anymore, would it? As far as > > this thread goes, I'm not sure I see the point of this > > question. Replacing the GNU toolchain has been suggested > > before, but as far as I know never done. I suspect this > > would be difficult. > > > > Most if not all embeded systems do this ... Normally they don't replace it, they just do without most of it, resulting in a system very unlike a *nix, but one that certainly qualifies as "linux".