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.
Sometime Today, VC cobbled together some glyphs to say:
slash dilemma is to merge the two terms and call it Gnull (pronounced g'null, to differentiate it from null, the essential nothingness, a
I'm sure the gtk guys have something on this à la g_new, g_free, gint, guint, gchar. Perhaps they also have a gnull.
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
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:37 +0100, Anurag wrote:
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, can we have a session at the LUG describing what Hurd can do that Linux cannot do. Can you give a demo of GNU/Hurd and if possible show the install procedure.
I have downloaded hurd 2twice but never managed to sucessfully install it.
Amish.
Sometime on Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:15:40PM +0530, Amish Munshi said:
Anurag, can we have a session at the LUG describing what Hurd can do that Linux cannot do. Can you give a demo of GNU/Hurd and if possible show the install procedure.
I have downloaded hurd 2twice but never managed to sucessfully install it.
Amish.
That would be a good idea. We are we having our next GLUG meet?
Anurag
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