Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mathieu Roy wrote: > ... >> When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to >> find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler >> Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, GNU sysutils, >> GNU tar, GNUpg, GNU grep, GNU mailutils, GNU ncurses, GNU readline, >> GNU shellutils, GNU wget... > > you can install these on pretty much any system... is my gaming > machine running gnu/win xp? or did we use gnu/solaris at -xxx-?
Maybe, yes. > this GNU narcissism is pretty annoying... where's the freedom RSM > is promoting? the software is released under GPL and that's > it. You can call that narcissism. In these days, I do not think that the freedom Richard Stallman, via the GNU project, promoted are so famous that we can afford to forgot an occasion to advertise. > Nowhere in the GPL it says you have to call your project > GNU/something. Is there anybody that ever made that request? You now, it is not about giving to the Linux project, a kernel project, the GNU prefix. It is about naming the system itself, system composed partly, but only partly, of the Linux kernel. -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
