[ubuntu-uk] GetGNULinux.Org

[Jim Kissel]

Toby Smithe wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:02 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
>> Interesting results showing the tail is wagging the dog.  When ever the 
>> conversation took a turn down the GNU/Linux path, I always thought of:
>>
>> GNU/Linux/X/Apache/OOo/Gnome/KDE/add you favourite package here
>>
>> ...named operating system.
> 
> Ahh, but you see they aren't all necessarily common to all Linux
> distributions, are they? The one thing that you can safely say, at least
> currently, is that all Linux distributions have at least the Linux
> kernel and GNU tools as a base system. They may not all bundle
> "Gnome/KDE/add you favourite package here", but they do bundle the GNU
> stuffs.
> 
Every time I get sucked into this debate, I reflect back that John Q. 
Public/Joe Sixpack calls it Linux.  You may not like it, and probably 
don't, but that's not going to change the general public's mind as to 
it's proper name.

"...but we should educate the public to the error of their ways...." and 
perhaps we should, but remember that it is a difficult job to teach a 
pig to sing, and it annoys the pig.

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