KGX? WTF?

[Rob Kaper]

On Friday 26 July 2002 01:33, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> >Ever heard of LAMP (=Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)? Does the Apache group
> >complain that "LAMP" is called the way it is? I don't think so.
>
> actually no, I haven't heard of LAMP (maybe I did, and I forgot), but at
> least that appears to make some sense if I am properly extrapolating what
> it does based on the name, now if it was called GLAMP, then that would seem
> silly to me.

You have obviously not worked on a UNIX box without the GNU utils installed.
Trust me, I used to do stuff on a SunOS box without all that and it was a 
PITA. I would end up typing way more than I liked because nothing worked 
together. Sure, it did if you used a lot of pipes. tar that wasn't integrated 
with compression utilities, for example, which I consider pretty trivial for 
an archiving tool ment to store data (on tapes).

I consider GNU/Linux ridiculous, because people tend to call their operating 
system by the kernel name or at least the publically known name, But when 
launching a new platform which exists of several components I don't see why 
one shouldn't include a G when GNU is a vital part of that platform. In all 
fairness, they could've included an X for X11/XFree86, but X+Qt are implied 
by KDE. Using GNU tools or a Linux kernel are not, so they are specified.

Can't we just give the League some credit and see the results first?

Rob

PS: Shawn, didn't you have a say in this or aren't you a League member 
anymore?
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