A bit of history from an old-timer... This was back in the early 1990's - pre world wide web, when we old timers used a primitive technology called "usenet" to communicate.
Linus to Richard Stallman: I've written a new operating system. I'd like to call it Gnu/Linux. Richard Stallman to Linus: No! The operating system for GNU is "the herd." Linus to Richard Stallman: OK, I'll just call it Linux. [years later, Linux is popular, the herd won't even boot on PC's yet.] Richard Stallman to the World: Linux should really be called GNU/Linux. Linux to the World: Too late, you had your chance. -- Bob Matthews Associate Professor of Computer Science Truman State University 100 E. Normal Kirksville, MO 63501 http://www2.truman.edu/~matthews > From: iosif <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:40:35 -0500 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [fsck] Re: [Offtopic] GNU/Linux is kind of itchy > > "Credit for Linux generally goes to its human namesake, one Linus > Torvalds, a Finn who got the whole thing rolling in 1991 when he used > some of the GNU tools to write the beginnings of a Unix kernel that > could run on PC-compatible hardware. And indeed Torvalds deserves all > the credit he has ever gotten, and a whole lot more. But he could not > have made it happen by himself, any more than Richard Stallman could > have. To write code at all, Torvalds had to have cheap but powerful > development tools, and these he got from Stallman's GNU project." > > -- In the Beginning Was the Command Line > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 09:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:30 -0500, "iosif" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> should be GNU/Linux :) >>> >>> I remember I've read something about this on Linux Hater's Blog (btw, >>> LHB is a good one) but can't recall. >>> >>> So take the following with some sort of humor. Not as enjoyable as LHB >>> but the following's the best I can find. >>> >>> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16843&cid=1941648 >>> >>> - Is GCC critical to Linux? All of the following are able to compile the >>> kernel. >>> >>> LLVM http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/011711.html >>> TCC http://bellard.org/tcc/ >>> ICC http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers/ >>> >>> Btw, I'm trying to get 2.6.36 compiled with icc (someone claimed that it >>> was possible without any patch >>> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1832598&cid=33974198 ) but I >>> personally wasn't able to. They said icc makes it run 20% faster. Not a >>> bad deal. >> >> Well any distro your using will be using gcc and glibc though. >> >> The real reason why asking for GNU/Linux is unreasonable is because >> the reasoning is that GNU is such an essential part of the operating >> system that it needs credit. But it ignores the modern definition of a >> operating system certainly includes the services provided by X (which >> still manages device drivers for video cards, if thats not "OS" then I >> don't know what is) and arguably also the API and services provided by >> KDE or Gnome. So if you are going to say GNU/Linux, you should also >> call the OS used by Ubuntu "GNU/Linux/X/Gnome". >> >> Or you could just call it Linux. :) >> >> Ian >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To get off this list, send email to [email protected] >> with Subject: unsubscribe >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
