On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:50:08AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> * Richard Kreuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020512 22:44]:
> > GNU specific annex:
> >
> > 6.2 GNU
> >
> > This is the annex for the GNU operating system. We sometimes refer
> > to this as the GNU/Hurd system, in cases where it is necessary to
> > distinguish the GNU system from other systems that use large amounts
> > of GNU software.
>
> Good, but I think this does not acknowledge that GNU/Linux is still a
> GNU system.
Considering they call it "the Linux operating system" i don't think they
are willing to acknowledge that GNU/Linux is a GNU system. :)
Referring to "GNU" and "Linux" as OSes separately in the same document
seems inconsistent, but I don't think consistency can be archieved
when there's a disparity of opinions after all.
> Generally, I think GNU alone is ambiguous and shouldn't be used given
> the climate today.
"GNU" and "GNU/Hurd" are valid names. The climate today is that when people
read "GNU/Hurd" they think "Hurd".
If we avoid the "GNU" term today, tomorrow "Hurd" will be the name of the
whole system.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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