On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Balaji Damodaran <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > >1) Practically, it doesn't make sense to call it GNU/Linux or for that > >matter GNU/FreeBSD etc. It is awkward. Saying it Linux is easy - thats > >all **people want**. > > Jumping off the roof and killing yourself is easy than facing day to day problems of life :-) > >2) **People want** a Operating System to use, not the ideological baggage > >around it. > > **People want** -- It seems like you have done some market research :P > >I just checked Fedora and openSUSE home pages, they call their distro > >as a 'Linux-based' operating system. Thats 2 of the top 3 distros. > > >While we are at this topic, I wonder what people will say for Ubuntu. > >IMO, the world as we know it, is slowly forgetting the word 'Linux' > >(accept it or not, apart from RMS fanboys, nobody says GNU/Linux) and > >moving to call it as 'Ubuntu'. > > Well, If you remove GNU from 'Linux', Eventually everyone will forget the whole reason behind the development of the operating system. -- Arun S.A.G _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
