From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:49:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * glossary.texi (GNU, Daemon): Update information. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.1.90~2079 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd8aaa36dad1df7ceef05258e2ac5b6561b6587a;p=emacs.git * glossary.texi (GNU, Daemon): Update information. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog index ae65a9641a6..3e52a58a0e2 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-07-21 Richard Stallman + + * glossary.texi (GNU, Daemon): Update information. + 2009-07-19 Juri Linkov * custom.texi (Specifying File Variables, Safe File Variables): diff --git a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi index 1f3ee4d1f23..397482e6f1e 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ or by rebinding key sequences (@pxref{Keymaps}). See `killing' and `yanking.' @item Daemon -A daemon is a standard term for a Unix process that runs in the +A daemon is a standard term for a system-level process that runs in the background. Daemons are often started when the system first starts up. When Emacs runs in daemon-mode, it runs in the background and does not open a display. You can then connect to it with the @@ -585,9 +585,10 @@ that do not have their own local (q.v.@:) values for the variable. @xref{Variables}. @item GNU -GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. The GNU project aims -to develop a complete operating system that is free software (q.v.@:). -@xref{Manifesto}. For more information, see +GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix, and it refers to a +Unix-compatible operating system which is free software (q.v.@:). +@xref{Manifesto}. GNU is normally used with Linux as the kernel since +Linux works better than the GNU kernel. For more information, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/, the GNU website}. @item Graphic Character