Philip Tellis philip.tellis@gmx.net writes:
GNU is enough. Adding linux to the end of it only serves to give credit to Linus Torvalds
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The FSF set out to write an operating system called GNU. They
did that, and
that's why we call the operating system GNU. Why add anything to it?
All GNU/Linux distributions are simply variants of a `GNU/Linux` OS which is not _the_ GNU system. The GNU system is still under development. It'll have the Hurd as its kernel.
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).
As to GNU being still under development, I think its fantastic beauty is that the development will never stop.