Re: Project name

2001-10-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is what I thought. So I take it the naming will change slowly over > time. Or it won't. It might never change, and we can be annoyed at it. More and more I think free software people spend far too much time arguing about naming. Maybe that's the pr

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:48:22AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > From http://www.debian.org/index.html > > > > Debian GNU/Linux -- The Universal Operating System > > Like I said. That's one of the OSes we produce. It's our front r

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:17:27PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > No, the Hurd is only the user-extensible operating system > > and as such potentially universal (but in that even more so then Linux > > ever will be). Nevermind ;

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > No, the Hurd is only the user-extensible operating system > and as such potentially universal (but in that even more so then Linux > ever will be). Nevermind ;) Ah, so we could change it is a statement of faith? :) > As far as m

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > From http://www.debian.org/index.html > > Debian GNU/Linux -- The Universal Operating System Like I said. That's one of the OSes we produce. It's our front runner, and therefor in the main page title. I think it is appropriate. (I

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Lars Bahner
Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:06:56PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > I was just wondering if commonly used project name, ie. ``Debian > > GNU/Linux'' is starting to be somewhat misleading? > > We are the Debian Project, and we have a project called Debian GNU/Linux :) That is

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > > I was just wondering if commonly used project name, ie. ``Debian > > > GNU/Linux'' is starting to be somewhat misleading? > > I don't see where the confusion is. References? > > >>From [our web pages] The web pages are GNU/Linux-

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Lars Bahner
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:19:13AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:06:56PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > > I was just wondering if commonly used project name, ie. ``Debian > > GNU/Linux'' is starting to be somewhat misleading? > I don't see where the confusion is. References

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:06:56PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > I was just wondering if commonly used project name, ie. ``Debian > GNU/Linux'' is starting to be somewhat misleading? We are the Debian Project, and we have a project called Debian GNU/Linux :) > The title "Debian/GNU" God no, not De

Re: Project name

2001-08-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:06:56PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > I was just wondering if commonly used project name, ie. ``Debian > GNU/Linux'' is starting to be somewhat misleading? Commonly used by whom? As a project, we are Debian. What the project produces are these OSes: > * Debian GNU