On Monday 07 July 2003 05:06, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Gee, 8 times you mentioned gnu/linux and never did you mention just 'linux'.
Either you are RMS in disguise or you've been reading too much of his &^$#.
Sorry, it's still linux to most people and it will never be gnu/linux to me.
Just my $.02
Don't know why this bothers you. Never read any of his stuff, ever (except I remember reading parts of the first page or two of the gnu web site some time back. Don't remember what any of it said. When I'm talking about the kernel, I phrase it as linux. When I'm talking about a specific distribution, I mention the name of the distro. When I'm talking about a generic distro, which includes applications in addition to the kernel, (and which btw Linus had no involvement with), I phrase it as gnu/linux. Especially since the gpl license made it all possible. You are aware that there are other distros with gnu, and without the linux kernel right? Or that Debian is Debian GNU/Linux, according to http://www.debian.org/ right? You are of course free to refer to the software as whatever you want. And since I was posting to a suse email list, but am actually moving toward debian with some of my installations because of the reinstall nature of new .0 releases of suse (while still keeping some suse installations), I wasn't going to ruffle feathers or start a flame war on distribution preferences. Apparently using the term gnu/linux is more enraging to you than mentioning the wrong distro on a distro specific list. What are you so angry about with RMS? -- All spam received is reported to SpamCop. http://spamcop.net/