linux-kernel - Re: It's not GNU/Linux

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Message-ID: <17698.55554.717774.723696@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:41:22 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Marc Perkel <marc@...kel.com>
Cc:	Ivan Dimitrov <madcat@...orum.net>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: It's not GNU/Linux - it's jusy LINUX

On Tuesday October 3, marc@...kel.com wrote:
> Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
> > If you want to kill linux then fork it.And remember that many people use
> > GNU/Linux because of the ideology and the idea of freedom, not because
> > of the "Security" that DRM will provide them... This guy Linus is just
> > an ambitious and selfish bastard...
> >   
> 
> Ivan - It's not GNU/Linux - it's just LINUX. Time to get the name right. 
> RMS doesn't get to rename Linux. Linux isn't going to go away just 
> because they fork the license.

"Linux" is an operating system kernel.  By itself it is pretty
useless.
A thing which is Linux plus lots of libraries and utilities and maybe
a windowing system and a "desktop" is a lot more than "Linux".

It might be Redhat Linux, it might be SuSE Linux.  It might be
GNU/Linux.  It might be Debian GNU/Linux.  It might be KLX (referring
to KDE, Linux and The X11 Windowing System I think).  It might be
Ubuntu.  But isn't just "Linux".

It was never my understanding that RMS tried to rename the Linux
Kernel as GNU/Linux.  Rather he wanted to name the complete system
comprising Linux and some GNU software and X and anything else that
was free as "GNU/Linux".  I suspect he has more right than many to
suggest a name for the system seeing how much philosophy and
technology he has contributed.

NeilBrown
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