From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: 20 Dec 2002 22:40:15 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <121220021324043990%ajanta@no.spam> <20021220200019.405F42951F@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> <20021220203421.46A5C2951F@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040420813 10676 80.91.224.249 (20 Dec 2002 21:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PUyp-0002lv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:46:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18PUxh-0006YU-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:45:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!206.252.192.28!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!news.belwue.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1040420416 02 13713 z6kOEp-bS9AyuR 021220 21:40:16 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108377 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4906 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4906 "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: [Peter Galbraith:] > Get off it. Linux is a kernel. Linux distributions are a kernel plus > all the other stuff. There are no Linux distributions of only a kernel. > > And this "other stuff" is a variant of GNU. > > Yes, he could have said GNU/Linux distros, but the context made it > abundantly clear that he wasn't talking about just a kernel. > > It was also wrong. Is there any reason why you need to start flaming? Playing stupid might make you feel smug, but is hardly productive in winning people to your cause. And I don't see that Peter was flaming here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum