wrong meaning of GNU/Linux on Debian Project mainpage

Quoting from http://www.debian.org/ Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from

Avoid -private if possible

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-12-2004 17:56, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: [bla bla some stuff posted on the closed debian-private mailinglist] [Nothing in this email is private, please feel free to quote elsewhere.] Why then post it to -private in the first place?

Re: wrong meaning of GNU/Linux on Debian Project mainpage

Ed White: This is wrong. It's just a matter of interpretatin. Either one starts with the Linux kernel and add the GNU tools, then the wording on our web pages is correct. This is what the Debian project did. Or you start out with the GNU tools and add a kernel, for instance Linux, then RMS'