From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 14:40:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10608.mail.yahoo.com (web10608.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7D2A37B402 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:40:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20010125224016.44881.qmail@web10608.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [129.237.35.38] by web10608.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:40:16 PST Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:40:16 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler McGeorge Reply-To: treznor@sunflower.com Subject: RE: curiosity To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let's not start the childish fighting. Please restrict it to childish name calling, please. And, so you know, Linux is a term created by the inventor of Linux, Linus Torvalds (I think I spelled that wrong). He wrote it from scratch to simulate Unix. And, therefor, requires the utmost respect and admiration. --- "Zaitsau, Andrei" wrote: > Hey ! > Don't make my typo a great mistake. Typos happen to > everyone. I am sure you > make them also(actually you did !! "mispell" ! > Plus you don't make any sense. From your own point > of view : If you would > know English you would not misspell 'misSpell'. So > it means you don't know > how to write in English, and you have no idea what > you are typing (random > symbols probably). You should not make conclusions > quickly :P > Don't take it as offence, it's just a joke. > If I misspelled Linux it does not mean I do not use > it. :p > > caught in a lie.......don't lie again...... > > -----Original Message----- > From: SpaZ [mailto:spaz@bsdguys.org] > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:28 PM > To: Zaitsau, Andrei > Subject: Re: curiosity > > > if you used 'everything' you would not mispell > 'linUx'......and you would > know what they mean........ > > caught in a lie.......dont lie again...... > > d~y > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Zaitsau, Andrei > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:30 AM > Subject: curiosity > > > > Hello, > > It sounds kind of off topic, and not FreeBSD > related. But > > I was going to mail it to Linux mailing list, but > I don't want to offend > > them by my question :) > > > > Is it true that "LINUX" stands for Linux Is Not > UniX (LINUX) > > > > Guys, no intend to start flame war, I use > everything FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > > NetBSD, Lunux... > > I just need to know this is it true or not. > > Thanks. > > P.S. Can you CC me please since I am no on a > mailing list. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message