On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:23:21PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > Yeah, I was. Actually, I refer to Gentoo as Gentoo > GNU/Linux regardless of what's on the website (because I feel > GNU/Linux is the right thing to say).
"GNU/Hurd" makes sense to me when compared with "GNU/Linux", so your position seems coherent. I can imagine you aren't able to change the "Gentoo Linux" in the main site to "Gentoo GNU/Linux", though ;) > I find that Gentoo GNU/Hurd makes > it clear that it's not Linux. I feel that "Gentoo GNU" may confuse > people - it'll confuse people who know only of GNU in connection of > Linux and it'll confuse people who are used to hearing the Hurd called > just "Hurd." Gentoo GNU/Hurd clarifies that it's the Gentoo distribution > with the GNU userland combined with the Hurd. maybe you're right in that it's pragmaticaly better. i have my doubts on wether people reading "Gentoo GNU/Hurd" will think of it as a distribution of GNU, but looks like one way or the other some sort of confusion can't be totaly avoided :( -- 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
