>I wonder if RMS has a good argument to justify his insistence in the >truthfulness of the equation 'GNU = GNU/Hurd' beyond the well-known >historical and technical ones.
I see where you get that idea from. Linux-libre is just a deblobbed fork of the Linux kernel and the project which manages Linux-libre is a GNU project, But it's not the real GNU kernel, so it would still have to be called GNU/Linux-libre, or GNU/Linux. And with Linux-libre, and almost all forked projects that I have ever seen(MATE, Trinity, illumos, openIndiana, and the *BSD's to some extent), there is usually too much code for the project to handle, and it becomes a mess. The Linux kernel is approximately ~10 million lines of code, with a huge team, very hard to just fork it and make it your own. While the HURD is much smaller(with Mach I think I've read somewhere that it's about 200,000 lines of code) codebase wise. And it is written in GNU C style and doesn't have many small "hack" or shortcuts taken by the Linux kernel to achieve very fast speeds. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro < oitofe...@gnu.org> wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > > Agreed. But note that RMS asked me to not insist on calling the OS > > “the GNU system”, at least for now (AIUI, his main concern is that > > GNU = GNU/Hurd, which is not currently supported.) > > I wonder if RMS has a good argument to justify his insistence in the > truthfulness of the equation 'GNU = GNU/Hurd' beyond the well-known > historical and technical ones. > > From a strategical perspective, I fail to see why the distinction > between GNU/Linux-libre and GNU/Hurd could be of any relevance. IMHO, > calling both simply "GNU" would help in the promotion of the GNU > project and its ideals. That would not cause confusion, because GNU > would be defined as an operating system of multiple kernels, and > technical-inclined people would always know how to tell the difference > when needed or appropriate. > > -- > ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] > ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; > `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; > \_/ All software must be free as in freedom; > > >
