23 Jul
2001
23 Jul
'01
2:17 a.m.
Sometime yesterday, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Manish wrote:
How about calling it GLinux and not pronouncing the `G'. ;-)
That is not possible since RMS has explicitly asked people to pronounce the hard G in GNU. And the name is not GLinux - it's officially GNU/Linux, and "GL" can be just the short form of that.
Having to pronounce the G hard is really hard! How do you cope with this? Pronounce it guh-noo-slash-linux?!
I remember once Linus said that the good thing about Linux is that it's a cool name. Linux users are not confused about what the BSD in FreeBSD stands for and why it's not given free inspite of the name. I wouldn't mind calling it just GNU, or GnuOS, but GNU/Linux is tough.
Manish
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