Hehe -- you said you weren't going to argue. It _really_ isn't important to me. :-) >>> Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> 03/09/05 2:30 PM >>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > Or if I called my Solaris install GNU Solaris because > I use so much GNU software there. Or if I called my > Windows install GNU Windows for the same reason. > But I'm not going to do that. Unless Microsoft has some dark secrets, Windows wasn't built with gcc to run GNU software. But Linux was. Solaris was also not built with gcc to run GNU software, but it would have been a better OS if it had been (they do package GNU utils with Solaris now). >> I'm not going to argue about this because it isn't important to me, but >> I just want to say that I think it isn't foolish to tack a 'GNU' on the >> front of Linux. > > Good, but I think it is foolish to expect me to do that. I don't expect anything. I'm arguing with people like you who think it is foolish to refer to GNU/Linux. Your examples above with Windows and Solaris show that you aren't understanding the close relationship of Linux with GNU. Linux was born of GNU. It exists because of GNU and it wouldn't have existed without GNU. Windows and Solaris are nothing like that. Mike