On 11/10/06 21:48 +0000, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: <snip>
"But Linus himself uses GCC to build the kernel.."
Eh? Why can not Vihan say so? Linus Torvalds said he could not have made Linux without GCC. He does say GCC is used to compile Linux.
Linus used GCC because it was the only free (beer) compiler available to him on a x86.
Yes, well the point is, to a layman, who is completely new to this world, the word GNU doesn't make any sense.
Ok fine. So what makes sense? Linux? The X factor is it, eh?
For all the reasoning, Linus Torvalds can be labelled as egoistic, if one went by the anti-FSF lobby. After all Linus named the kernel after himself, while Stallman never named GCC as 'Stallman Compiler
Linus didn't name the kernel. He wanted to name it Freenix, the person sponsoring his hosting put it in a directory named linux (For Linus' Unix).
Collection', Emacs as 'Stallman Editor', and the Free Software Movement as 'Stallman's Movement', and GNU as 'Stallman is Not Proprietary'. :-) But many GNU people do think Linux sounds cool, so why throw mud at GNU?
But honestly, we aren't throwing mud at GNU. We are merely refusing to say GNU/Linux because it makes no sense to us.
Devdas Bhagat