The way I see it, the GNU parts of my Linux machine are in userland. Similarly, the GNU parts (GPL) of my windows machine are in userland, so it makes as much sense for me to call my Ubuntu box GNU/Linux as it does to call my Windows box GNU/Windows; i.e none what so ever. As I alluded to earlier, when you get HURD running, then you can call it a GNU operating system.
Vijay. On 20/11/2007, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20/11/2007, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20/11/2007, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Aside from the OS itself, I use (almost) exclusively free software > (nearly > > all GPL) on my Windows machine I don't refer to it as GNU/Windows. Why > > should I refer to my Ubuntu machine as GNU/Llinux? rather than just > Ubuntu > > or just Linux? > > Because GNU/Linux is the name of the operating system, not the > applications you use on your desktop. By your own admission you use > the Windows operating system with some GPLed software. So why would > you call it GNU/Linux when you're clearly, as you stated, running > Windows. > > > > -- > www.dobo.urandom.co.uk > ---- > If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us > still has one object. > If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now > has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
