[NTLUG:Discuss] Newsforge article about Suits and Linux

[Rick Cook]

On Wednesday 21 February 2001 22:31, you wrote:
> I did the GNU/Linux myself!  RMS would be proud!
> I do agree with RMS in that "outsiders" are somewhat unaware
> of the dependency on GNU software for Linux.

I use "Debian GNU/Linux" at work and at home myself...

I also use GNU stuff on other OSs like Solaris and IRIX (for longer than I 
have been using Linux). I usually have the gcc suite, emacs, fileutils, 
binutils, bash, diffutils, a2ps, gnuplot, etc. available on all the ?nix 
platforms I use. That doesn't make them GNU/Solaris or GNU/IRIX

I have also compiled X11 for non-Linux platforms (notably Solaris 2.5.x) so 
that I could have a "consistent X environment" between platforms. That didn't 
make it GNU/Solaris/X11.

Note: I am not disagreeing with rms's stance about the importance of the FSF 
tools identified as GNU, I am arguing about the adding of GNU as part of the 
name Linux. After all, Debian is now > 4000 packages. Much less than half of 
those are from the FSF (of course, only a couple make up the Linux kernel).

>
> Don't worry... to us penguins.... it's still Linux.
>

Agreed. 


Rick
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