Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Personally, I'd keep Tux and drop the GNU. The GNU foundation are an > excellent organisation and have a very important part to play in > developing F/OSS software and the environment around it, however in > the same way the the Six Nations is referred to as a Rugby Tournament > and not a Rugby Football Tournament, I think that we should refer to > Linux either by distro name or by the simple word "Linux". > I think 90% of the world have already dropped the GNU from Linux, but it's still something that purists hold dear, siting the fact that the OS wouldn't exist were it not for the GNU components therein... myself, I don't really care one way or another as in the real world it doesn't happen anyway... "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", "Fedora Core 4", "Ubuntu", "Knoppix"... these are what people call distros... if we take the GNU/Linux debate to its logical conclusion every fork should acknowledge its origin, hence Ubuntu should probably be called "Ubuntu/Debian/GNU/Linux/Minix" (but that would really be a mouthful!)...
I also actually intensely dislike the GNU logo... it seems sinister to me, a bit reminiscent of black magic and ritual whereas Tux is a jolly sort of penguin and a much more appropriate icon for the OS. Shame that these folks appear to have now constitutionally banned Tux... what will they be doing next? Enforcing the "man with the red flag" law when it comes to road vehicles? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
