Tag Archives: Free Software Foundation

Mark Bolzern Issue #13, May 1995 How old is Linux? The Linux project was started about four years ago, but the Linux distributions are really far more than four years old. Linux is the product of many years of hard work. Everyone knows that the Linux operating system was created from scratch about four years ago, right? Actually, while the ...

Arnold Robbins Issue #7, November 1994 This month’s column discusses groff, the GNU version of troff. groff This month’s column discusses groff, the GNU version of troff. Explaining troff in full detail can (and has!) taken more than one book. For now, we’ll provide a little bit of history and an overview of what groff is, what the input tends ...

Chet Ramey Issue #3, June-July 1994 While originally written by Brian Fox of the Free Software Foundation, bash is now maintained by Chet Ramey. In this article, Chet explains the nhistory of shells and then goes on to explore features specific to bash. Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. The ...