I have installed a distribution of GNU/Linux. I'm not sure what to do next...
Can I have some help here /prog/?
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Anonymous2009-11-07 8:24
>>39
troll.
most operating system design book, these so-called "newbie books" are all very well respected and most written 20 or 30+ years ago.
many of these "newbie books" were around when you were in your mother's womb.
these "newbie books" are the same ones the Linus used while writing his kernel.
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Anonymous2009-11-07 8:26
>>40
He hasn't done it YET because it would display his true motives too obviously.
Now that you faggots are going around calling it GNU/Linux it's only a matter of time until he starts saying it should be called RMS/GNU/Linux.
And you fanboy retards will actually do it for him.
>>5
Just grab it from CVS, then extract it into some directory site site-emacs, and then add it to your .emacs file. There's even a "screencast" about it.
I really don't know how to articulate this any more without identifying myself. I was not an OS pioneer, but I was in the scene when IBM began selling their hardware to businesses. I was an OS programmer in that era studying, and improving the OS that was delivered. The OS was the fundamental layer of software that exist to support to application software. Stuff like text editors and compilers were part of this OS. Without this OS software, the rest of the system could not be controlled. The kernel was always one part of this system, the very core of the OS.
>>34,39 In addition, we have no universally accepted definition of what is part of the oerating system. A simple viewpoint is that it includes everything a vendor ships when you order "the operating system."....A more common definition is that the operating system is the one program running at all times on the computer (usually called the kernel), with all else being application programs. This last definition is the one that we generally follow.
regardless, can you really consider the ancient computers of times past to have an OS in the modern sense?
i mean, computers, software, and operating systems have changed an incredible amount since then.
Computer software can be divided roughly into two kinds: system programs, which manage the operation of the computer itself, and application programs, which perform the actual work the user wants. The most fundamental system program is the operating system, whose job is to control all the computer's resources and provide a base upon which the application programs can be written
Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Chapter 1, Page 1.
>>59
i asked moot 3 times whether he visits us here on world4ch (two in threads, and once as an ancillary to an email), he ignored me every time :(
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!Ep8pui8Vw22009-11-07 10:58
>>52,54
To me, an OS will always be an OS - the fundamental software layer between the hardware the higher level software that depend on the OS. Andy Tanenbaum terms my "OS" as "system software". While I don't think he's incorrect, I'm not going to change my terminology on his account.
>>60
Moot doesn't care about w4ch. I am not Moot, I just like this tripcode.