History Question

[Tim Schmidt]

However Ben, I assumed that wehn he said the "core of Linux" he was refering 
to the kernel...  Just my thoughts.


>From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>
>Reply-To: pfaffben@msu.edu
>To: Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>
>CC: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: History Question
>Date: 03 Aug 2000 17:48:44 -0400
>
>Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > > Yes, This is what I've read countless times...  that Linux was built 
>from
> > > the ground up (of course, starting from the home-brew kernel of Linus) 
>and
> > > at most borrowed some misc code from Minix for a couple of months 
>while
> > > Linus hacked out his own.  That's why I was wondering where this 
>supposed
> > > "core of Linux came from BSD" stance came from...
>
> > Hmm, maybe the author pulled it out of his %@@?
>
>If you figure that the author should have said "GNU/Linux"
>instead of "Linux", it kinda makes sense.  GNU uses some BSD
>utilities in userland, or at least derivatives of them, or at
>least the ideas and command-line syntax behind them.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Some days things work out in the end, despite all the problems
>you have.  Today I was faced with sending an email from Pilot,
>actually using Elm through a telnet interface, because I couldn't
>directly extract the email aliases file from the MSU fencing team
>mail account; there are so many aliases there that it would be a
>nightmare to translate them by hand.
>
>*sigh*  I tried to think of an alternative; Pilot's
>ELM-through-telnet interface is an unmitigated POS to my mind,
>and I'll do almost anything to avoid it.  Here's what I
>eventually came up with:
>
>	* Found and FTP'd the .elm/aliases.text file from the
>           fencing account.  Hmm: format is weird.
>
>	* Installed ELM locally for more info (`apt-get install
>           elm-me+').  Hey--it has a description of the aliases
>           file format, and a utility (elmalias) to dump it out in
>           a semi-reasonable format.
>
>	* Wrote Perl script to translate output of elmalias into
>           list of actual email addresses.
>
>	* Wrote Emacs Lisp code to pick off the last word I'd
>           typed and pass it to the Perl script, then insert the
>           results into my Emacs buffer and format it nicely, then
>           append the signature I use when wearing my
>           fencing-captain hat to the message buffer.
>
>It's amazing, sometimes, what you can salvage from a situation
>that seems like a total fsckup.  (At least, if you know a little
>Perl and Lisp.)
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