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[robotech_master]

Stopping in from the laptop station of a Kinko's now. Was near the Big Lots where I stopped to buy an Ethernet cable and a small optical mouse that I can use with my laptop. Sometimes a track ball just doesn't cut it.

Working on a review of Online! The Book, an Internet guide that I've promised to review for my local LUG who get publisher bennies for reviews that appear. Interesting enough book, and I'll link to my review if Slashdot posts it. Something amusing about it, though: it contains a pair of sentences that seem almost calculated to annoy the "GNU/Linux contingent"—the folks who hold that Linux should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" because everything but the Linux kernel was created by the Free Software Foundation for GNU ("GNU's Not Unix"). Those sentences being, "Linux was created by Linus Torvalds (University of Helsinki, Finland). In 1991, he released the basic OS, which consisted of his kernel and some tools." Way to go, guys.

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[point5b.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted someone to release a OS based around the Linux kernel with absolutely no GNU bits. I think that's actually been done, but I don't remember the name of the project.