On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Kumaran R <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also noticed that Android may be considered practically the first OS, to > use Linux w/o the GNU system. So, maybe when talking about Android, using > Linux rather than GNU/Linux is better. :-D This is happening already. FSF names it as Android/Linux when talking about the system and as Linux when talking about the kernel, in all their official communications. :-) Somehow people who found fault with FSF for prefixing Linux systems using GNU userland tools with GNU/ failed to notice when Android did not include Linux anywhere in its name or when FSF started calling Android as Android/Linux. -- அகிலன் (Akilan R) [ blog.akilan.in ] *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
