Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Mar 96 04:27:37 PST | From | Curtiss <> | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system |
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On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 02:11:32 -0500 you said: >I would expect that most of the people who speak of "the Linux >operating system" think of this as just a minor lack of precision. > >But aside from being unfair (which by itself would not be worth >fussing about), it also tends to split the community and thus >discourage communication and cooperation. When the people who use >what is essentially the GNU system think of themselves as "Linux >users", and not as "GNU users", often they don't see a reason >cooperate with the people who maintain the GNU software. This leads >to version-skew and unnecessary incompatibility. > Like Linux libc and GNU libc.
>One way to help unify the community, and gently encourage more >cooperation, is to use the term "Linux-based GNU system" to >describe these systems more accurately. > Nah, I use the term "GNU-based Linux system" :)
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