On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul Scott <waterho...@ultrasw.com> wrote: > GNU is an OS, Linux is a kernel. > > Unfortunately popular usage has led to Linux incorrectly meaning GNU/Linux > and even more.
How much GNU software is required before it has to have the GNU moniker? If my machine uses the Linux kernel is mostly busybox instead of coreutils/textutils/shutils do I have to keep using GNU/Linux? If I use a BSD kernel with mostly GNU software, do I have to call it GNU/BSD? (Something I'd find very amusing, by the way.) mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org