Sometime on Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:38:49PM +0530, Vickram Crishna said:
My own 90 paise (overvalued):
As long as the popular system is a synergy between GNU and Linux, one way (that I suggested a long time back in this group) out of the slash dilemma is to merge the two terms and call it Gnull (pronounced g'null, to differentiate it from null, the essential nothingness, a breathtaking acknowledgment of its holism).
And since the Hurd is apparently popular with people who are currently fiercely technically minded, the combination should be called Gnurd (pronounced nerd, about which no comment is necessary).
The "GNU/Linux" naming convention, based on "Base"/"Kernel" structure is fair enough. With GNU being the base components of the OS and Linux being the Kernel. Same way we have GNU/Darwin, GNU/NetBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Win varients. Just saying GNU would mean the Hurd as its kernel.
The Hurd may look like a useless excercise, but that's probably because we dont have applications which utilize Hurd's capabilities natively. Most of the applications available are ports of GNU/Linux.
Anurag