Re: gnu and linux

[Ramakrishnan M <rkrishnan@xxxxxx>]

I am sorry. I am breaking my previous statement of no furthur posting.

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:

> 5. Considering that you have not provided any other concrete way of
> measuring "GNU-ness" of a distributin I maintain my point that counting
> klocs (lines of code) is still a decent way of measuring how much of
> your system is GNU/Linux and how much of it is BSD/Linux or MIT/Linux.

I still maintain my point. I sure many will agree with me. I can write a huge
program (with N number of lines of code) which does nothing very useful and
publish it under Mozilla Public Licence(MPL). If this is part of your 
distribution, then the above analysis you gave(or somebody in slashdot gave)
will go for a toss.   
 
> 6. Counting the number of .deb / .rpm packages is not a valid measure
> because some packages are huge (emacs, for example) while others are
> miniscule (imaptool whose Debian package is maintained by yours truly).

Exactly. The same argument applies to the "klocs" also. Only thing is "Huge"
not in terms of "Bytes" but in terms of "lines of code".


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  Ramakrishnan M				
                      
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