Re: [Ada] PATCH: Change Linux to GNU/Linux

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>]

On 04-Oct-2001, Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com> wrote:
> - --  This is a LinuxThreads, Solaris pthread and HP-UX pthread version
> + --  This is a GNU/LinuxThreads, Solaris pthread and HP-UX pthread version
... etc.

Is it really appropriate to change "LinuxThreads" to "GNU/LinuxThreads"??

"LinuxThreads" is a threads package for GNU/Linux that was written
by Xavier Leroy.  He chose to call it "LinuxThreads", which was a
somewhat confusing choice of name (since it wasn't the only threads
package for GNU/Linux), but that's what he chose, and referring to it
as GNU/LinuxThreads would add to the confusion.

Google finds 32,000 hits for "LinuxThreads" but *none* for "GNU/LinuxThreads"
(actually it pulls up 5, but they are all false hits).

Even on ftp.gnu.org, the files for LinuxThreads are named
"glibc-linuxthreads-*", not "glibc-gnu-linuxthreads-*".

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