On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:35:52PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:23, Robert Millan wrote: > > GNU/Hurd was the term used for referring to GNU to avoid confusion with > > its variant GNU/Linux, since they say "Gentoo Linux" in first place i > > don't see what they mean to distinguish GNU from.. > > That is counter productive. The GNU system can and should be able to > run on multiple kernels.
the GNU system includes a kernel. there are variants of GNU that use other kernels, like GNU/Linux, but the real GNU system is Hurd-based. > GNU/Hurd is the best name. i agree in that GNU/Hurd is a useful (though redundant) name to distinguish GNU from its variants. this is the case for "Debian GNU/Hurd" as a distinction to "Debian GNU/Linux". but it's out of context here. Ie: if you speak of "Linux" as a whole system, like in "Gentoo Linux", you deny that system is a GNU variant, hence no need to distinguish it from the real GNU, which "theoricaly" is a totally different thing. p.s: yes, i feel deja-vu too.. but ain't it fun going on the same things over and over? ;) -- Robert Millan make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Stop. Another world is possible - Just say no to genocide _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
