From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why 'mrproper'?
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 14:46:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uadny93yv.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208070851230.2421-100000@iccarus.tmr.com> (Bill Davidsen's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:55:25 -0400 (EDT)")
commence Bill Davidsen quotation:
> Having started out on the four floppy MCC "distribution" of Linux,
> building kernels clean with 'make distclean,' can someone provide a
> quick historical note as to what mrproper buys? A quick look at the
> tree after each didn't tell me much.
Apparently, the Finnish name for "Mr. Clean" cleaning solution
translates more directly back to English as "Mr. Proper". Or so I
read somewhere.
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[|] Sean Neakums | Questions are a burden to others;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-07 12:55 Bill Davidsen
2002-08-07 13:18 ` Chris Chabot
2002-08-07 13:58 ` DevilKin
2002-08-07 15:08 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 17:30 ` Heinz Diehl
2002-08-07 14:13 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-08-07 13:32 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-07 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-07 23:23 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 13:46 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2002-08-07 17:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 17:13 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 18:51 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 20:07 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-07 21:07 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-07 23:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-08-09 17:47 ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-08-09 17:57 ` kernel memory swap Imran Badr
2002-08-09 19:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-09 23:19 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-08-14 16:25 Why 'mrproper'? Joerg Pommnitz
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