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    SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
    >> Richard Stallman stood up and insisted that
    >> Linux be called GNU Linux?

    You know, he was talking about the distributions and not the kernel
    itself. People tend to refer to RedHat's or other's distributions as
    "Linux"* when in fact "Linux"* refers only to the kernel. Stallman only
    wants the growing number of RedHat users and Debian users and SuSE users
    etc. to realize the fact that there is a lot more to a distribution than
    just the kernel, and that large, important parts of most distributions is
    GNU. So calling a Slackware CD "Linux" is technically incorrect (not that
    that will stop anybody from doing it).

    [By the way, feel free to delete everything from your system that says
    "GNU" when you do --version, if you don't like it.]

    * Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

    Dr. Tom Holroyd
    I would dance and be merry,
    Life would be a ding-a-derry,
    If I only had a brain.
    -- The Scarecrow


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