OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux

Posted by Hemos on Thursday November 13, 2003 @02:31AM from the beyond-the-backroom dept.

Psyke writes "The Australian Financial Review is reporting that 'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel will push to move the Linux operating system out of the back office from next year.' and 'Meanwhile, the OSDL, which has largely worked on improving Linux's ability to run large servers, said it would work on improving Linux's performance on ordinary desktop computers.'" The article itself is a little off- those companies are working *through* the OSDL of which they are members - along with a number of additional companies as well.

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Re:No, really, its not by Scholasticus · 2003-11-13 03:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

When RMS launched GNU's Not Unix, he definitely intended to create a Unix-like OS which would be free, in at least two senses: free as in freedom, and free of any proprietary Unix code (and the second sense is a necessary consequence of the first sense). From all the history I've read, RMS intended GNU to be like Unix in just about every important way (though it did improve on then-existing versions of Unix). Since what we typically call "Linux" is GNU, Linux, some other stuff, XFree, some graphical interfaces, etc., it seems accurate to describe "Linux" as "based on Unix" as long as you don't mean "derived from Unix."