Linux

[Digital Wokan]

I just tell people I use Mandrake, I dropped saying Linux with it.  (Now
the FSF will probably come knocking on my door and staple a paper with
GNU/Mandrake on it to my forehead.)

"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 26. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Brian Cluff so:
> 
> > There is no doubt that the GNU project has done huge amounts for linux.  I
> 
> Actually it's the other way around as GNU was around and functioning before
> Linux hit the streets :).
> 
> > just have a problem calling it GNU/Linux when there is so much more in there
> > that's not in the GNU project, like XFree86 and apache that calling it
> > GNU/Linux completely ignores, or even worse, implies that GNU somehow
> > deserves credit for it.   Also GNU/FSF doesn't write all the GNU software,
> > for the most part its just a distro type of thing.  I would be like people
> > insisting on calling mandrake   Redhat/Mandrake because it was origionally
> > based off of Redhat's distro.
> 
> We need another name for the OS, then. Linux is a kernel, not an OS. That's
> like saying the engine is the car. Granted the car isn't as useful without
> an engine, but it can be towed or used for stationary activities :).
> 
> An engine without a car however, is a trike project waiting to happen. Hmm,
> guess that blew my analogy ;-).
> 
> My main interest in naming the OS is that soon we will have the unnamed OS
> running on different kernels. Hurd might actually be released at some point.
> Looks like debian GNU/Solaris died and debian GNU/bsd never got off the
> ground, though.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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