[NBLUG/talk] What's the Difference?

ME dugan at passwall.com
Wed Jun 25 21:25:01 PDT 2003


Bob Blick said:
>>> I have already read the article by Richard Stallman but I didn't get a
>>> clear
>>> picture.
>>
>> RedHat is a vendor of Linux, much like Debian, SuSE.
>
> And of course, RMS says not to use the term "vendor" with regards to
> software ;-)
>
> Cheers,

Yeah, but "Profit at any cost Evil Corporations disinterested in consumer
needs" was not appropriate and seems to be in-use by MS.

Obligatory Linux Comment:
Useful Linux Tool: lsof
Ever try to unmount a floppy disk or CDROM and find a message about the
device being busy?
Find the file that was opened and is preventing the unmount.
The command (lsof) lists open files. It is also useful for inspecting
internet connections (see exra flags.)

For more information, see
$ man lsof

-ME




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