<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 10:00 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that > GNU doesn't mean a damn in terms of Linux's sudden surge on the desktop > without X. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On the desktop. That might be right. But Linux still is more important on servers. And one thing that's common between desktops and servers is, that they use the GNU userland. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Remind me: did Unca Bill get filthy rich selling servers or selling to the desktop? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > Further, just on the side of salesmanship: a short, easily-pronounced > name -- "Linux" in this case -- is far superior to a clumsy expression > like "Guh-new plus Linux" or "Guh-new slash Linux". </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hä? I always pronunce "GNU/Linux" as "gnu linux". I omit the slash. And "gnu" isn't such a hard word... </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> It's an ugly word spoken in English. It sounds like a bodily function, not a word describing something desirable. (Many UNIX commands share this trait: awk, grep, fsck, sed, etc.) Guh-new. Ugly. Clumsy. Just... no. Linux, in comparison, positively flows from the tongue. Juxtaposing "Guh-new" with Linux only serves to heighten what a dreadful name GNU had always been. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Is my pronuniciation wrong? And what's that "GNU+Linux"? I've never heard that before. Where was this term used first? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I first heard it from RMS himself when he was babbling about how important it was that we call it "Guh-new slash Linux" or "Guh-new plus Linux" at some conference or another. It was captured in the movie Revolution OS also -- again straight from the horse's mouth. Of course you can go to <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html</A> or <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html</A> and read RMS' rants directly. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > -- Could you please use a proper signature delimiter of "-- "? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Ummmm.... What? Please use "--" instead of... "--"?! <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn "To [the Chinese], all other people are barbarians." --The Dalai Lama </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>