04.13.21
Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, TechBytes Video at 10:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
The true story of the GNU Operating System (no, it didn’t start in 1991 and not in Finland either… but in Massachusetts, with its announcement predating the first Linux release by over 8 years*)
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Summary: Later this year Linux turns 30, but Linux is just a component added to the GNU Operating System, developed a very long time earlier based on the design of UNIX (the mainstream media likes to distort that part of history); here’s the creator of the GNU Operating System, telling me his story here in the United Kingdom (we did many clips like these and this one seems very timely)
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Roy (RSS): The first thing I was going to ask you about [is] the origins of the GNU Project. I realise that you had to use some proprietary tools to begin with in order to … to itself. Do you remember what kind of editor you were using at the time and [what] development tools?
RMS: Well, I was using Emacs, not GNU Emacs
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until I wrote GNU Emacs but after all that was the last Emacs there were many other Emacs editors before then. I wrote the first one for the PDP-10 and that was still available and there was also a kind of Emacs on the MIT LISP machine and between those two I could do all my editing on Emacs. But in general, the platform for bootstrapping the GNU system was UNIX, after
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all, GNU’s Not UNIX. What does that mean? That was a customary way of saying that was a system designed to be compatible with and similar to UNIX.
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* Initial release, or version 0.02, was on 5th of October, 1991 (the Linux anniversary). GNU was first announced on 27th of September, 1983, at 6:35:59 PM. There was a mention of a kernel in the second paragraph (highlighted in yellow): “Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it. Contributions of time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed.
“To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other things. After this we will add a text formatter, a YACC, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of other things. We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system, and anything else useful, including on-line and hardcopy documentation.”
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Posted in TechBytes Video at 7:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Transcript below
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When I have something to say to the public, if it fits into the Free Software movement, then I publish it on GNU.org or occasionally it’s put on FSF.org. The other things I have to say I put on stallman.org. stallman.org has an RSS feed and
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if you want to see what I have to say, that’s the place to do it.
I think it’s tremendously important to reject the idea that you have to accept something like Facebook. You don’t have to. And if you do start using that, you’re working for a harmful cause at the same time you are working for whatever cause you have in mind, you’re working for harm.
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I ask therefore that people not put photos of me in Facebook or Instagram. I urge people not to be useds of Facebook. I don’t called them users of Facebook. I call them useds of Facebook because it is Facebook that uses these people, not the other way around.
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04.06.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 9:12 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, explains what inspired him to get involved in non-software matters
After this interview we looked up some lines from “The Prisoner” (on his laptop).
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03.30.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 2:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, responds to the claim that there are fewer people now who berate him
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03.24.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 12:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, talks about restrictions that exist when it comes to many Web-based videos
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03.16.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 3:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, talks about so-called ‘social’ media sites other than Facebook
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03.10.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 3:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, talks about storage in so-called “clouds”
Pardon the error (I made an error by referring to ownCloud as “myCloud”).
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03.03.14
Posted in TechBytes Video at 5:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Dr. Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation’s founder, talks about how Facebook is using people and why no person should support Facebook
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