Re: [OT]Unix and sources (Was:Re: True Type fonts....)

[Alexei Nefediev <nefediev heron itep ru>]

> Alexei Nefediev writes:
> > 
> [...]
> > This is the real advantage of UNIX over M$: you
> > always know what is going on inside of your computer! You have the full
> > control over it, not M$!   
> 
> I'd really love to see how you do a kernel recompile for a SunOS machine...
> ...or fix a bug in Openwindows... ...or change something in the source of
> Framemaker... ...or....
> My point: The open source power is a power which is mostly inherent to
> Linux, FreeBSD and other free *nixes - but not necessarily to "Unix" as a
> whole - there are quite a few *nixes out there which are about as
> proprietary (when it comes to Source code - *not* configuration!) as M$...
> 

:-))) 
Sure you're right about impossibility to compile the kernel in
commercial Unixes. I'm just so used to Linux, that I extrapolate
everything I like in it to other Unixies. But at least you can compile
lots of free applications. :-) 

Besides, if we have a lucky opportunity to compile the kernel for Linux,
why not to use it? :-)

Alexei