GIMP, Firefox, Marble, Gallium3D, BenNanoNote; a whole world beyond the mirror

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Of GNUs, poems, sun and "free" ­ apples. GNU operating systems exactly as well as windows or even MacOS I did define so quasi also car, in reality everything's a little more complicated. As Unix is a special model series and GNU his younger brother a model of that series, the Operating System Solaris (made by the company named University Network, die now auch bought out herself by the latin sounding Firma out), is a role­model of Unix, exactly as an example AIX, HP­UX, IRIX... etc. The "Sun" as Solaris has been also called, is exactly like Unix, der "Predecessor" of GNU ist ebenfalls der second Vorgänger des ganz fresh Illumos(­Sonnne) Project. Which had been abundoned by the company with the latin sounding name (more or less). Where am now? Ah, well ... at the "poem"... This poem sounds like a japanese poem written in five strophes in a special form of rhyme. It was brought to life because an earlier project hasn't got the financial backing what everybody hoped for., compared to the, windows OS or this one with the apple logo. For years nobody recognized the previous project, the developers company had been sold worden, it had been offered throught alll serious and impossible "Teleshops" ­ to naive and simple customers, who had absolutely no clue, what it was that they had bought without knowing better. To stick a little longer with the "car" metaphor: It used to be looong time ago einmal a model with a exquisit Roadholding and certain acceleration speed. The "free apples"... That OS of the company with the design gurus, whose sales arguments are referring to this, like the sort of scots apples mentioned before, changed their complete car model to provide it with a fast Unix­Engine, which stood for much more stability, flexibility, as well as scaleability. Well, because of some who put great amout of value on the interiors, the engine was not that important and was relicensed libre under the leadership of the company itself, because of other developers to improve everything. Unfortunately this engine was for some of the developers not libre enough, There was way to little effort of that big company, because of this that promising project died too. But finally another project had decided to raise still the flag and to offer the engine other thrilled geeks for steady improvements. And this was only the tip of the iceberg for different operating systems respectively car­models (brands). Let's look at the interior now, which is putting some high value in the car for most users.. (Oh No, before I think I have to say something to "recursive acronyms")

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