tlug: TLUG Home Page Popularity Explosion

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

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tlug note from "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
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>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> Thanks to the hard work of TLUG Webmaster Jim Schweizer and
    Craig> TLUG genki member Hiroo Yamagata, the TLUG home page has
    Craig> shown an incredible increase in popularity this past week.
    Craig> For a seven day period, the number of accesses surpassed
    Craig> 10,000 for only three main pages of the site.

Yeah, the interviews are being promoted on a couple of the mailing
lists I'm on, particularly XEmacs, where RMS is considered the
flakiest deity around.  They were mostly interested in the fact that
Linus actually agreed to the Lignux silliness.  (Really bad name.
"Lugnuts", "lignite" (a particularly dirty kind of coal)---all kinds
of bad vibes for me.)

I thought it was pretty funny the way RMS had to twist himself up in
knots over the "technical advances" in the Hurd, and then totally
ignored the fact that there are two existing systems with perfectly
usable kernels in talking about how it would help to forward his
social revolution.  AFAICT, both Linux and FreeBSD (as kernels and
system utilities) do everything for society that RMS hopes the Hurd
will do.  He oughtta just adopt them and concentrate on making Hurd a
better kernel than either.

What he should have done was to talk to the major distribution leaders
and said, "hey, the kernel is sine qua non once it's built, but you
can't build it without GCC, and you can't talk to it without bash and
the shellutils and the fileutils and the....  how about it, equal
billing?"  and you get GNU/Linux (I prefer Linux/GNU; you could
presumably take one of the *BSD kernels/filesystem packages and the
GNU utilities to get BSD/GNU, but there isn't any other kind of
Linux).

In fact, don't the *BSD use mostly GNU programming tools?  They've got 
byacc and their own make, and they don't use autoconf and stuff, but
the compiler is GCC, right?  Does RMS bug them about it, does anyone
know?



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