Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
29 Mar 1999 11:48:35 +0200


Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com> writes:

|> Hi Albert.
|>
|> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
|>
|> >>> Check out /bin/false sometime. It is almost 100% bloat.
|>
|> >> Enclosed are both /bin/false and /bin/true from the system I'm
|> >> running on (RedHat 5.0 with kernel 2.2.4 - not my system though),
|> >> and neither appears to be much in the way of bloat to me...
|>
|> > Odd... I'm running Red Hat 5.0 too. Here is GNU false:
|>
|> Since I wrote that, I've been home and checked my systems, which run a
|> variety of RedHat 4.1, 5.1 and 5.2 installs, and all are heavily
|> bloated.

true and false are bash builtins, so who cares?

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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