On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:43:32AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:28:54PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > >"Fedora" is the name of our project. Our general-purpose Linux > > >distribution is "Fedora Linux". Let's refer to it that way in the > > >OS itself. > > > > 1. "Fedora" is shorter and better, IMO. The "Core" suffix was > > dropped years ago. > > Check this out from back in the day: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Logo-history-variations.jpg > > Under that scheme, it was obvious that we did a number of different things, > all of them "Fedora". The merger with Extras and creation of a real > community project was essential to our ongoing success, but it also > introduced a community / output confusion. This has gotten worse in recent > years as we introduce new and different things, leading to things like > people saying "Oh, that's in CoreOS, not Fedora", where the shorthand is > more confusing than helpful. > > > > 2. Why Linux and not GNU/Linux? Linux is just a kernel. GNU/Linux is an OS.
http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/ tl;dr: 8% gnu (by some measure) in 2011. That number has probably fallen quite a bit since then. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
