On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:23 pm, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > >>> Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> 03/09/05 1:59 PM >>> > >On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > >> To me, Linux is a cool kernel and lots of great GNU (and other) > >> software. But people (myself included) like to refer to things by short > >> names. I (and at least a few others) don't feel the need to proclaim > >> GNUs greatness every time I mention Linux. I still know GNU is great > >> software. The fact that others do not is a GNU public relations > problem, > >> not a problem Linux or Linus Torvalds has to solve. > >It is a public relations problem that would be lessened if you would call > > >Linux "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux." > > 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. Different scope: Solaris does not require any GNU software to run or build Windows does not require any GNU software to run or build (AFAIK) Linux *does* require GNU software to run or build (the GNU compiler collection, and, as a good userland example, libc) > But I'm not going to do that. If PR is so important to > him he should chuck the GPL and use a modified > BSD license instead.</joke> > > >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. > We disagree, and that is OK. I don't think anyone's expecting you to tack on the 'GNU/', just not get flustered when someone does tack it on. I've mostly been tacking it on whenever I'm talking to a non-technical person (which usually begs the explaination) - if I tacked it on constantly, non-Linux geeks would probably install GNU/Hurd on my desktop machine April 1st as a retaliation. -- -dave Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota http://www.math.umn.edu PGP/GPG Fingerprint: C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 (visit http://www.gnupg.org for more information) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050309/9b2d1d0d/attachment.pgp