[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Apr 20 18:48:48 CDT 2003


On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 07:24 PM, Linc Fessenden wrote:
>>    Well, it means they'd have to go back to pcc. ;)  The fact that 
>> GNU's
>> compiler is used to generate the binaries does not make it a GNU
>> product.  To follow your logic to the next level, running NetBSD on a
>> SPARC processor makes it a Sun product, or placing that machine on a
>> floor which I washed with Mop-n-Glo would make it a Johnson Wax 
>> product.
>>
>>            -Dave
>
> I didn't say that - I am just hinting at the fact that the compiler is 
> a
> pretty integral part of the system....  Well, most systems anyhow.

   Well, yes and no.  I've never, for example, compiled anything on my 
mail server.

         -Dave

--
Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
St. Petersburg, FL                          -Gary Nichols


More information about the rescue mailing list