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Re: Upgrade from 2.9 to 3.x?
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:32:36PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > Let's not get into debates about this here, but please note that the
> > FSF/the GNU project prefers the term GNU/Linux distribution, as any
> > such distribution is much more than just the kernel:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
>
> If you don't want a debate, don't bring it up. ;)
>
> I don't see the the need to confuse a novice with religious issues; he
> asked in terms of "Linux", and pedantic issues of "GNU/Linux" are non
> sequitor to his question.
Those of us on the SC agreed to use the term "GNU/Linux" and that's what
goes in documentation, but I do agree with Scott that there's no need to
badger people into being GNUically correct on every occasion. We didn't
agree to force everyone to say "GNU/Linux" in every email message.
I will suggest, though, that if someone refers to GNU compiler collection
as "the Linux compiler", the GNU C library as "the Linux library", etc,
someone might well (justifiably) correct this mistake. Ideally this will
happen in as diplomatic a way as possible.