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bug#9210: Documentation: misleading wording
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Charles Wilson |
Subject: |
bug#9210: Documentation: misleading wording |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:29:05 -0400 |
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On 8/2/2011 2:29 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> While libtool is a GNU project, I think that this effort by the FSF to
> independently re-entitle Linux to "GNU/Linux" subsequent to the
> effective failure of their Hurd OS is foolish and it ignores that most
> software in a typical "Linux" system is not the Linux kernel or FSF/GNU
> software. I think that it is better to stick with the names that the
> developers of the Linux kernel and the users prefer to use.
>
> The same logic could be used to create the names GNU/FreeBSD,
> GNU/NetBSD, GNU/Solaris, GNU/Darwin, etc., because most of these OSs
> include some GNU components.
"How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?"
http://lwn.net/Articles/445454/
Answer: between 8 and 13%, depending on whether you count the (now
practically independent) Gnome stuff.
By LOCC, the kernel alone is as big as all the GNU stuff put together.
--
Chuck
bug#9210: Documentation: misleading wording,
Charles Wilson <=